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Date:      Mon, 3 Sep 2001 19:49:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Via Chipset Fix
Message-ID:  <200109031749.f83HnIg23330@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <000b01c13497$0f6f1a10$aa240018@cx443070b> "from Jeremiah Gowdy at Sep 3, 2001 09:39:54 am"

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It seems Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
> I noticed the following thread about the Via chipset problem.  I run a
> production server off a Tyan Tiger 133A, which also has this problem.  Tyan
> does not have a BIOS fix, nor does it look like they ever will.  When you
> contact them, they point to the Windows driver fix.  They don't seem to
> understand there are non-Windows systems.  If you could add such code to the
> kernel it would help me get past a 20 day uptime which has been the record
> this box has had.  It simply panics on heavy IDE useage.  / /usr /var /tmp
> and swap are all on very fast SCSI.  /usr/home is on a large IDE UDMA66 for
> storage.  if you go to /usr/home and do something like du -h (there's about
> 30 gigs in there) or ls -R or something of that nature it will almost
> certainly panic.  We've made some adjustments and the frequency of the
> problem is reduced, but a kernel option for a hack on this chipset would be
> very worthy in the eyes of those of us stuck with these motherboards running
> FreeBSD.  This is just a single example, I also have a KX133 which is
> affected, with no patch from Asus.

Hmm, what you should try is change pci reg 0x76 of the K?133 chip, that is
most likely on pci0:0:0. Then using pciconf set bit 5 to 0 and bit 4 to 1,
the other bits should be left untouched. Does that help ? if not you
are probably having another problem....

-Søren

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