Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:23:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: Donald Nash <D.Nash@utexas.edu>, FREEBSD-HARDWARE@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and VIA chipsets Message-ID: <20010930132319.K25827@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200109271956.MAA19986@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:56:54PM -0700 References: <114232891.1001591365@bubba.ots.utexas.edu> <200109271956.MAA19986@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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On Thursday, 27 September 2001 at 12:56:54 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Donald Nash <D.Nash@utexas.edu> wrote: > >> I really don't expect >> it to be a problem since ASUS is a recommended motherboard manufacturer for >> FreeBSD systems and they use VIA chipsets, but I'd really like to have an >> informed opinion before we buy these things. > > I don't know about the particular motherboard you're looking at, > but VIA KT133/KT133A w/686B chipset motherboards can supposedly have > issues with IDE data corruption (among other things), and, as far as I > know, FreeBSD has no fixes for this (unlike Linux, I think). > > [ If anyone knows of FreeBSD fixes, I'd like to hear about them. ] Søren committed some fixes to -CURRENT the other day. I expect it will soon find its way to -STABLE. >> I attempted to sign on to this list yesterday, but my subscription had to >> go to the moderator (I used an address different from my normal return >> address), and he hasn't responded yet. We're a little short on time, so I >> can't afford to sit on this question any longer. So if you have an answer, >> please respond to me directly rather than just to the list. > > [ I normally do not reply by email, but this is definitely a good reason > for doing so. ] There are plenty of others. See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for more details. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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