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Date:      Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:30:10 +0100
From:      "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk>
To:        "David Leimbach" <leimbacd@bellsouth.net>, <edgewise@mindspring.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Installation--AMD Duron
Message-ID:  <008501c11ecf$c2164ef0$98e91e3e@mark2>
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> > I think there may have been a problem with a certain IDE chipset
(VIA686B,
> > if i remember correctly) in the ATA driver, that was fixed at some
point
> > between 4.1 and 4.3, although I don't know where.

> I  have the VIA chipset as well... I have only ever run 4.2 FBSD and 4.3
> FBSD.  Linux has had issues with this chipset as well.  I have been VERY
> pleased with FBSD4.3 and highly reccommend it for "solving the problem".

yup, I can echo those sentiments re. 4.3 working like a dream - it's been
very stable, never had any crashes or such like, longest uptime was about
20 days but that only ended due to me rebooting to alter the kernel.
Contrasting that when I did manage the once to get 4.1 installed and
booting, the page fault syncing discs problem trashed the contents of the
hard drives after about 20 minutes of uptime....

Mark



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