From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 27 15:12:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC09237B41F for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:12:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fBRNCHQ89916; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:12:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:12:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200112272312.fBRNCHQ89916@apollo.backplane.com> To: Anthony Naggs Cc: Predius , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers) References: <005101c18ee1$9b5d66e0$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :In article <005101c18ee1$9b5d66e0$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION>, Predius : writes :>There are a couple known issues going on with the VIA Chipset line (Some :>acknowledge by VIA partially, some not.) beyond just the 686B bug. :> :>Here's a couple sites with details. Myself, I think it's a BIOS writer's :>problem as well, but unfortunatly with most VIA boards, their goal is :>performance over stability, leaving people like us SOL. :> :>http://www.networking.tzo.com/net/software/ Tha faq on this site is great: http://www.networking.tzo.com/net/software/readme/faqvl019.htm This guy has obviously been playing with VIA chipsets for a long time. :>http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/813/1.html <- In german, bring your fish : :This story, about all VIA chipsets having poor throughput with :Ultra-ATA/133 controllers and other fast PCI adapters is available in :English: This is different. You can find an english version of this story at The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/23502.html :Cheers, : Tony (with a VIA 686A on my system board) My condolences! -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message