From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Sep 29 20:52:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2736137B406 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 252716AB08; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:23:20 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:23:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Darryl Okahata Cc: Donald Nash , FREEBSD-HARDWARE@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and VIA chipsets Message-ID: <20010930132319.K25827@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <114232891.1001591365@bubba.ots.utexas.edu> <200109271956.MAA19986@mina.soco.agilent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109271956.MAA19986@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:56:54PM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 27 September 2001 at 12:56:54 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Donald Nash 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