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Date:      Sun, 13 May 2001 23:04:09 +0100
From:      "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk>
To:        "Salvo Bartolotta" <bartequi@inwind.it>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Read command timeout
Message-ID:  <06c901c0dbf8$ad6c6b70$0200a8c0@mark2>
References:  <04cc01c0dbe9$29723f70$0200a8c0@mark2> <20010513.21552800@bartequi.ottodomain.org>

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> > System spec:
> > Biostar M7MIA motherboard, using AMD761 north bridge and VIA 686B south
> > bridge                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> IIRC, another person has met with difficulties with the VIA south bridge
> recently (and NO installation) -- it was an ASUS AM7266 mobo, "featuring"
> the same south bridge. Actually, the problems seem to be connected with
> IDE disks; AFAIR, SCSI disks work correctly.
>
> AFAIK, there are no solutions (yet), but I would be happy if I were wrong
> (erm, I've got IDE HDs & I'd very much like to get the ASUS mobo) :-))

Indeed. As this seems to be the case (I kinda guessed the 686B was the problem), if I
bought a PCI IDE controller and plugged the hard drive into that, could I install freeBSD
on a hard drive connected to that? Or would it have to be a hard drive connected to one of
the on-board IDE controllers?

Mark


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