From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 17:48:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.svr.pol.co.uk (mail5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F7637B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 17:48:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from modem-208.oxygen.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.7.208] helo=mark2) by mail5.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 14xedQ-0003ki-00; Thu, 10 May 2001 01:48:52 +0100 Message-ID: <00f901c0d8ea$f7648200$0400a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "John Van Sickle" Cc: "Question-FreeBSD" References: <000f01c0d8fa$6ac78c60$3b4c0f18@CT37304A> <004501c0d889$d586e300$0400a8c0@mark2> <001801c0d9b3$ba886c10$3b4c0f18@CT37304A> Subject: Re: Asus A7M266 mobo problem. Please help Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 01:48:43 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm using the Asus A7M266, which uses the AMD 761 northbridge and the VIA > 686B southbridge, with a 1.33ghz Thunderbird, 256mb DDR Crucial PC2100 CAS > 2.5, IBM 75GXP 75gb harddrive, Intel etherexpress (fxp0). It always hangs > after probing the harddrive. I'm using the same chipset then (amd/via combo), and 128MB PC2100 CAS2.5 DDR....I'm almost certain this is something to do with the VIA 686B chip, or it's IDE controller, and an incompatibility with the ATA driver. I am also using an IBM hard drive, but it's a much older ATA33 6.5GB deskstar model (DHEA-36....er...something). I wish I had a big enough net connection to make downloading and trying a couple of other versions of freeBSD less than a 45 hour task :-( Gonna give the old install floppies a go now though, with the 4.1-release install CD and the 3.5.1-release install floppies. It probably won't work, but hey. I may also submit an official problem report, as no-one seems to know how to fix this one, so I suppose it could be down to a bug somewhere. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message