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From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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On 20-Jul-99 Amancio Hasty wrote:
> Have you checked your syslog to see if you are getting disk errors?
> 
> Also, I noticed that you have a VIA chipset and I know that 
> at least with the Bt848 driver they have caused havoc. I would
> stick to Intel PCI chipsets.
> 
> Not sure if your motherboard supports or not do you have
> the latest microcode for your VIA chipset? 

Huh?

Excerpt from my dmesg:

Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0: <VIA 82C597 (Apollo VP3) system controller> rev 0x04 on pci0.0.0
chip1: <VIA 82C598MVP (Apollo MVP3) PCI-PCI bridge> rev 0x00 on pci0.1.0
chip2: <VIA 82C586 PCI-ISA bridge> rev 0x41 on pci0.7.0
ide_pci0: <VIA 82C586x (Apollo) Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x06 on pci0.7.1
chip3: <VIA 82C586B ACPI interface> rev 0x10 on pci0.7.3
bktr0: <BrookTree 848> rev 0x01 int a irq 9 on pci0.9.0
bti2c0: <bt848 Hard/Soft I2C controller>
iicbb0: <I2C generic bit-banging driver> on bti2c0
iicbus0: <Philips I2C bus> on iicbb0 master-only
smbus0: <System Management Bus> on bti2c0
Hauppauge WinCast/TV, Philips NTSC tuner, dbx stereo.

What types of havoc should I be looking for?  Haven't had any since December
when I bought the new motherboard.

Oh, and here's uname -a:

FreeBSD john.baldwin.cx 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #3: Thu Jul  1 21:08:59
EDT 1999     root@john.baldwin.cx:/usr/source/src/sys/compile/JOHN  i386

More info available on request.

>       Cheers
> -- 
> 
>  Amancio Hasty
>  hasty@rah.star-gate.com

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