From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 21 14:59:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from charlie.cns.iit.edu (charlie.cns.iit.edu [216.47.143.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F2A15422 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:59:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cattand@charlie.cns.iit.edu) Received: (from cattand@localhost) by charlie.cns.iit.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA21231 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:58:47 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:58:46 -0600 From: Andrew Cattau To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: problem running FreeBSD with VIA chipset Message-ID: <20000121165846.C756662@charlie.cns.iit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i have an AMD K6 200 that i am trying to install FreeBSD on. There is a problem with my hardware that causes me to get random system crashes and kernel panics during periods of heavy hard disk activity. I believe this is a problem with either my hard disk controller or my bios. I ran linux on this box for about a year and a half, and had similar problems under linux until i started using the kernel option "PCI bios quirks", which seemed to fix the issue. the motherboard is an fic socket 7 board (pa-1007, i think but i dont remember exactly) with a via apollo chipset. my boot screen tells me that the ide controller is a VIA 82C586x. the bios is AWARD, i have no idea on the rev # if anybody knows a way to fix this or work around this i would greatly appreciate it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message