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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers
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To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:46:47 +0100 (CET)
Cc: Matthew Gilbert <agilbertm@earthlink.net>,
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It seems Danny Braniss wrote:
> > It seems Matthew Gilbert wrote:
> > > >     So, general question to everyone having crashes during heavy
> > > >     IDE workloads:  Please post your /var/run/dmesg.boot
> > > >     output.
> > 
> > > atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller> port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on 
> > 
> > You have the VIA 82c686b southbridge chip which is known to cause severe
> > data corruption problems if the BIOS does not setup the northbidge
> > chip correctly. Please check with your board vendor if they have a
> > new updated BIOS that fixes this problem.
> [...]
> 
> Søren,
> 	I have an AOpen MB, and I just read all their fixes, but none
> seem to relate to the VIA 82c686b problem, is there, or could there be
> a list of OK Bios/MB?

Not that I know of, most serious vendors list the 686b problem in
on of their updates, but some only engages it if they also find
a SB live! card in the system since that really breaks :)

-Søren

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