Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:39:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <200109021739.f82HdUY83387@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20010902102548.C64910@dragon.nuxi.com> "from David O'Brien at Sep 2, 2001 10:25:48 am"
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It seems David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:11:15AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:33:36PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > > > Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too. > > > There are at least two major problems with VIA chips: > > > > [data curruption on VIA KT133/133A systems by pushing PCI and memory bus] > > > > Are you sure about that? > > I am. I was having data coruption in a terrable way when I added a 2nd > IDE UDA100 drive to a very plain MSI K7T Pro2-A 1.2GHz Athlon system. Hmm, dont MSI have a fixed BIOS ? I could add the code to the kernel, but do we have a placeholder for such PCI quirks ?? There is nothing new to these kind of problems, lots of chipsets has problems that are worked around in the BIOS, and frankly that is where such fixes should be IMNHO... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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