Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:07:06 +0700 From: "Rashid N. Achilov" <achilov-rn@askd.ru> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support of VIA Apollo Pro in 6.x is completely broken? Message-ID: <200710221107.06708.achilov-rn@askd.ru> In-Reply-To: <471AA9D4.8090003@paradise.net.nz> References: <200710191613.18043.achilov-rn@askd.ru> <471AA9D4.8090003@paradise.net.nz>
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On Sunday 21 October 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Hmm interesting - I couldn't actually find any specs for a G*B*-6VA+ > (only a GA-6VA+)... is it a VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset with slot-1 > P-II/III? Sorry, of course GA-6VA+. It is VIA Apollo Pro with Socket 370. Description at http://tw.giga-byte.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=1442 > > If so I've run 6.x (a while ago so probably 6.0 or 6.1) on a Tyan > Trinity 400 (same chipset and cpu support)... and I used a 3Com > office-connect ethernet (xl based) card....without any issues. Maybe see > if Gigabyte have a more recent BIOS update for the board and update one > of them and re-test! Newest BIOS for this mb is F8. These boxes already has F8. Some (at least three) boxes has completely similar troubles - so I think, it in chipset support. 4.5 has not ANY these troubles. > > On the ATA cable front, assuming the chipset is as I guessed, the ATA > controller is ATA-66 capable, so yeah, best to use an 80-wire cable and > get *some* IO speed out of these old things! Of course, best to use speedup. But, wheh I do not use, I shoud receive downgraded ,but working system, not false CRC ERROR! -- With Best Regards. Rashid N. Achilov (RNA1-RIPE), Web: http://www.askd.ru/~shelton OOO "ACK" telecommunications administrator, e-mail: achilov-rn [at] askd.ru PGP: 83 CD E2 A7 37 4A D5 81 D6 D6 52 BF C9 2F 85 AF 97 BE CB 0A
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