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Subject: Re: USB issues with Apollo KT133A mobo
From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
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On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 02:48, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> > a rock under 5.0-DP2, which is why I'm sticking with it despite other 
> > potential bugs.  I can burn CDs now!
> 
>      Many (most? all?) KT133A-based motherboards have a known issue with
> the PCI bus that often results in an IDE transfer problem.  However,
> this was fixed (IIRC) in FreeBSD around the 4.5/4.6 timeframe (maybe
> earlier).  [ Hmmm.  You're probably seeing another problem with 4.7.  ]

I have motherboards where this fix doesn't work :(

According to the board vendor you're supposed to use the latest Via
drivers (ahahaha..)

Tinkering with various PCI and AGP options (eg turning features off)
makes it more stable, but they still hang :(

I have other KT133 based boards which work flawlessly because the BIOS
does the fix.
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