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Date:      Tue, 04 Sep 2001 00:22:49 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org
Cc:        Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors
Message-ID:  <3B948149.1FE08591@mindspring.com>
References:  <200109010033.f810XaT08748@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20010902001113.B27595@widomaker.com> <20010902102548.C64910@dragon.nuxi.com>

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David O'Brien 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.

Are you sure it's not just a CMD640 IDE controller?  They are
known to have issues; Linux has a patch... FreeBSD used to, but
I think it got yanked out, or was just turned off by default.

-- Terry

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