Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 06:31:59 -0600 From: Drew Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> To: Conrado Vardanega <cvspam@ig.com.br> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD with VIA's vt82c686b South Bridge Message-ID: <3BE686BF.105@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> References: <NDBBLGPICDCECKDGFCGFEEKFCNAA.cvspam@ig.com.br>
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The only boot problem I ever had with my board (A7V133) had to do with my parallel port - I believe I had to set it to polled mode. Conrado Vardanega wrote: > I own a Asus A7V133 motherboard with vt82c686b South Bridge. > > FreeBSD has some problems booting on this motherboard, frequently freezing > during the boot up. Sometimes it boots with some error messages regarding > the ATA system. No errors occurs when the onboard ATA is disabled. > Therefore, and I'm sure, it's a problem related to the chipset's ATA. The > Promise controller has nothing to do with this and works very well. > > I'm planning to buy a ASUS A7VL-VM for a low-cost server. I'm just worried > how would FreeBSD behave with this chipset. > > My concern is: how many of you are running FreeBSD fine with Asus A7V133, > A7VL-VM or similar motherboards with VT82C686B? > > Thank you. > Conrado > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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