From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 20 8: 5:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFE31532D; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 08:05:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:05:02 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105AC1@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Amancio Hasty' , tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru Cc: Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Soft-updates feedback Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:07:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FWIW, I have a VIA chipset in my machine that is running -STABLE and I don't have such problems. I don't know if I have the same chipset as you tho, as I'm not at the machine to check my dmesg. I put an decent about of stress on the drives and don't seem to have any lockups at all, slowdowns yes, lockups no. I have the VIA MVP3 chipset, and my 2 of my drives are in DMA mode and one is in PIO mode. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Amancio Hasty [SMTP:hasty@rah.star-gate.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 3:13 AM > To: tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru > Cc: Julian Elischer; current@FreeBSD.ORG; stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Soft-updates feedback > > Have you checked your syslog to see if you are getting disk errors? > > Also, I noticed that you have a VIA chipset and I know that > at least with the Bt848 driver they have caused havoc. I would > stick to Intel PCI chipsets. > > Not sure if your motherboard supports or not do you have > the latest microcode for your VIA chipset? > > Cheers > -- > > Amancio Hasty > hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message