From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Nov 4 18:44:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-3.ig.com.br (smtp-3.ig.com.br [200.226.132.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C96537B416 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 18:44:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32277 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2001 02:43:59 -0000 Received: from adsl-fnsbnu-114-a.brt.telesc.net.br (HELO conrado) (@200.193.25.114) by smtp-3.ig.com.br with SMTP; 5 Nov 2001 02:43:59 -0000 From: "Conrado Vardanega" To: Subject: FreeBSD with VIA's vt82c686b South Bridge Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:44:05 -0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I own a Asus A7V133 motherboard with vt82c686b South Bridge. FreeBSD has some problems booting on this motherboard, frequently freezing during the boot up. Sometimes it boots with some error messages regarding the ATA system. No errors occurs when the onboard ATA is disabled. Therefore, and I'm sure, it's a problem related to the chipset's ATA. The Promise controller has nothing to do with this and works very well. I'm planning to buy a ASUS A7VL-VM for a low-cost server. I'm just worried how would FreeBSD behave with this chipset. My concern is: how many of you are running FreeBSD fine with Asus A7V133, A7VL-VM or similar motherboards with VT82C686B? Thank you. Conrado To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message