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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors
In-Reply-To: <20010902102548.C64910@dragon.nuxi.com> "from David O'Brien at Sep
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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:39:20 +0200 (CEST)
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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

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