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Date:      Wed, 09 Aug 2000 08:27:09 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Tim Zingelman <zingelman@fnal.gov>
To:        Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Re: Strange problems installing 4.0 vs 3.2 (2-d trial)
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0008090821330.25546-100000@nova.fnal.gov>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008090508490.4625-100000@dave.uhring.com>

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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Dave Uhring wrote:

> > something wrong with VIA chipset perhaps? It might be somehow not
> > compatible???  strange thing it worked excellent with 3.2 ...

> There appears to be something very wrong with Apollo MVP4 chipset.
> ... DMA access ... switched over to PIO access ...
> ... no one ever continued the discussion.
> ... the only workaround mentioned was to replace the 80-wire cable
> with a 40-wire cable.  Evidently no one cares about the hardware
> incompatibility.
> Dave

I have an MVP3C and had similar problems until I flash upgraded my bios.
Now all seems fine.  (Though it looks like I have a 40 pin cable...)

ata0-master: DMA limitted to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable
ad0: 9787MB <WDC WD102AA> [19885/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <ATAPI CDROM> at ata0-slave using PIO4
afd0: 96MB <IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI> [96/64/32] at ata1-master using PIO0

  - Tim



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