From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 12 13:57:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.72.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E7737B661 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 13:57:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (cauchy.math.missouri.edu [128.206.72.27]) by math.missouri.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA45470 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:57:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Message-ID: <38F4E34E.7509861B@math.missouri.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:57:50 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Organization: University of Missouri X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: New Motherboard and ATA Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was thinking about buying myself an EPOX EP-7KXA motherboard with the VIA Apollo KX133 chipset. But I read that VIA Apollo chipsets have some problems with FreeBSD 4.0. Does anyone have any experience with this particular chipset? Does it depend upon the particular hard drives that I am using? I read that a solution is to add the lines /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio to the beginning of rc. Does that mean that I will suffer a performance loss in not being able to use the ATA66? I notice that there was a lot of talk about putting statements about this in UPDATING, but I don't see anything there about it. Also, wouldn't it be appropriate to say something about this in the Errata? -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message