From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 16:30:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D7B37B403 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:30:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from mark2 (usr396-bh2.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.233.152]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA21899; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:30:26 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <008501c11ecf$c2164ef0$98e91e3e@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "David Leimbach" , , References: <001801c11ec9$87d81670$98e91e3e@mark2> <01080617544700.00711@mutt.home.net> Subject: Re: Installation--AMD Duron Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:30:10 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message