From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 29 1: 6: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19ED337BBA2 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 01:05:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com) Received: from sse0691.bri.hp.com (sse0691.bri.hp.com [15.144.0.53]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9BAD9FF; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 01:05:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from steve@localhost) by sse0691.bri.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA94692; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:02:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from steve) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:02:03 +0100 From: Steve Roome To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New kernel with its ATA drivers damages the filesystem Message-ID: <20000329100203.A94487@moose.bri.hp.com> References: <20000328223420.C10913@got.wedgie.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from bandix@looksharp.net on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:56:57PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:56:57PM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Jason Garman wrote: > > >Whats your motherboard? I just trashed an ASUS P2V (which also has a VIA > >chipset on it) -- same problems, under all OSes that used DMA on the > >drive. Unfortunate, really. Got a new Abit BE6 instead, works like a > >dream. Highly recommended. > > Yeah, this is the same reason I'm hesitant to jump into the Athlon > world. The companies that have been backing AMD's chips are just > horrible at chipsets. I'd still much prefer a good, solid Intel > chipset, and for IDE/UDMA definitely a PIIX- series controller. Too > bad, because otherwise the Athlon is a nice platform. I've had VIA chipsets since as long as I can remember (started with freebsd on 2.1) and they've been fine, [not withstanding pilot error, overclocking too far and putting just plain wrong or silly settings in the BIOS.] IMHO, on an comparison (using same release times) the VIA chipsets have performed admirably (often far better, but never far worse) than the Intel offering. Even the SiS chipsets I started with were prefectly reliable, and also at least as good performers as their rivals. My Athlon500 + FIC SD11 is fine, the only problem being I needed a BIOS upgrade for my 34Gb IDE disk because I bought the board as soon as it hit the market =( It runs make worlds (3.4-stable) in about 40 mins, and I can thrash any part of the hardware just as hard as on any other machine without causing an FIC-only problem. All I want now is a -march=athlon gcc/egcs flag in 3.4-stable. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message