From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 22 11:24:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.wanadoo.nl (smtp1.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE9E37B41A for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:24:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (rot2-p2421.dial.wanadoo.nl [194.134.139.117]) by smtp1.wanadoo.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g2MJOK004724; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:24:20 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:24:15 +0100 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Holt Grendal Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA 686 Chipset Message-Id: <20020322202415.40b18405.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20020322162503.30145.qmail@web11607.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020322172002.1f658dd5.steve@sohara.org> <20020322162503.30145.qmail@web11607.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX,Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:25:03 -0800 (PST) Holt Grendal wrote: HG> Yes sorry! The 686B indeed. HG> HG> How can I do these "fixes" ? You don't do them - they are there in the kernel now. You should see something like this in your dmesg output. atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data corruption bug It is also easy to perform an elimination test on this change - just comment out the test and call to ata_via_southbridge_fixup(dev); on lines 536-8 of sys/dev/ata. As I said before this usually cures problems experienced under 4.4 rather than the other way round - worth eliminating if nothing else. -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors The computer obeys and wins. |A Better Way To Focus The Sun You lose and Bill collects. | licenses available - see: | http://www.sohara.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message