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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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