Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 00:22:49 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <3B948149.1FE08591@mindspring.com> References: <200109010033.f810XaT08748@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20010902001113.B27595@widomaker.com> <20010902102548.C64910@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > > > Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too. > > > There are at least two major problems with VIA chips: > > > > [data curruption on VIA KT133/133A systems by pushing PCI and memory bus] > > > > Are you sure about that? > > I am. I was having data coruption in a terrable way when I added a 2nd > IDE UDA100 drive to a very plain MSI K7T Pro2-A 1.2GHz Athlon system. Are you sure it's not just a CMD640 IDE controller? They are known to have issues; Linux has a patch... FreeBSD used to, but I think it got yanked out, or was just turned off by default. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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