From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 12 17:33:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ct.home.com [24.2.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A61EA37B611 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:33:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tsikora@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.2.168.186]) by mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000413003341.OKXD26343.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@home.com>; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:33:41 -0700 Message-ID: <38F515A2.6DBB263@home.com> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:32:34 -0400 From: Ted Sikora Reply-To: tsikora@powerusersbbs.com Organization: Jtl Development X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.15pre17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wkt@cs.adfa.edu.au Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: New Motherboard and ATA Questions References: <200004130011.KAA06817@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warren Toomey wrote: > > In article by Ted Sikora: > > Warren Toomey wrote: > > > > > > In article by Stephen Montgomery-Smith: > > > > 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? > > > > > > Yep, you definitely need /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio. > > > Put this right at the top of /etc/rc, and also in /.profile for > > > when you boot in single-user mode. > > > > > > > This is for UDMA66 right? > > > > Just uncommenting: > > options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering > > options ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA #Enable DMA on ATAPI devices > > > > for a kernel puts UDMA33 on for me. > > The patch I described fixes a specific problem with DMA use on the > VIA Apollo IDE chipset, i.e atapci0: . > The workaround until you apply the patch is to disable DMA and use PIO. > > I wasn't talking about UDMA33 or UDMA66. > > Apologies for any confusion. > Oh! The EPOX board uses : atapci0: The 596A is usually found on Super7 boards or manufacturers trying to cut corners. Actually it is a better solution because the software codecs and AMR are both junk IMOP. Most users add a sound card and 'god only knows why' you would ever use an AMR slot. The ATA66 is the obvious benefit though. I think EPOX went back to it on their Super7 boards versus a 686A. -- Ted Sikora Jtl Development Group tsikora@powerusersbbs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message