From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 31 1:26:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas2.cos.agilent.com (msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com [192.25.240.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF5F237B401 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 01:26:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (msgrel1.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.77]) by msgbas2.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0666C13DA for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 02:22:44 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE01BB0 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 02:22:43 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id BAA03593 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 01:22:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200108310822.BAA03593@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2001 03:12:50 EDT." <5.1.0.14.0.20010831024941.00c3fe18@rfnj.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 01:22:42 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata 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 Allen Landsidel 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 DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message