Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 01:22:42 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <200108310822.BAA03593@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2001 03:12:50 EDT." <5.1.0.14.0.20010831024941.00c3fe18@rfnj.org>
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Allen Landsidel <all@biosys.net> wrote:
> > Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133
> >chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such
> >motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the
> >difference?). For more info, check out:
>
> This is total nonsense.
Do a google groups search on "via chipset ide corruption". You
might be surprised at what you find. Just because you don't have
problems, doesn't mean that the problem doesn't exist.
[ After scanning some of the hits, it seems that a new BIOS might fix
the problem. ]
> Some people may feel differently (As may I once the nForce is out and field
> tested) in the future, but for now, I wouldn't even consider any Athlon
> motherboard without a VIA chipset; The exception, of course, being AthlonMP
Heh. I'm writing this on an Asus A7M266 (I didn't want to wait for
the nForce).
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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