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Date:      Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:34:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA & 82C596 bug in 4.0-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <200004041034.MAA48408@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200004041019.MAA65929@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from John Hay at "Apr 4, 2000 12:19:03 pm"

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It seems John Hay wrote:
> > 
> > Yup VIA has a new version of the 82C596 chip, in their usual visdom they
> > change the interface, but not the chip ID (I'll nominate VIA for the 
> > way they do versioning). However I have worked out the solution with
> > Chris Wiener <cwiener@crlabs.com>, that had this problem also and
> > kindly helped testing. Se the patch belowm try it and let me know..
> 
> Is it possible that something like that is happening with the 82C586
> too? The chip on our boards are all marked VT82C586B. I'll try the
> patch although it seems to be for the 596?

Well I wouldn't be surpriced at that :)

> Should I just install 3.X and then copy a newer kernel over? 3.4
> install perfectly and dma also works without a problem if enabled
> with flags 0xa0ff. (Although that is probably a slower dma?)

I need a verbose boot log from the machine so I can see if VIA 
changed the chip ID or at least the revision on it...

-Søren


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