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Date:      Mon, 05 Nov 2001 06:31:59 -0600
From:      Drew Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org>
To:        Conrado Vardanega <cvspam@ig.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD with VIA's vt82c686b South Bridge
Message-ID:  <3BE686BF.105@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org>
References:  <NDBBLGPICDCECKDGFCGFEEKFCNAA.cvspam@ig.com.br>

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The only boot problem I ever had with my board (A7V133) had to do with 
my parallel port - I believe I had to set it to polled mode.

Conrado Vardanega wrote:

> I own a Asus A7V133 motherboard with vt82c686b South Bridge.
> 
> FreeBSD has some problems booting on this motherboard, frequently freezing
> during the boot up. Sometimes it boots with some error messages regarding
> the ATA system. No errors occurs when the onboard ATA is disabled.
> Therefore, and I'm sure, it's a problem related to the chipset's ATA. The
> Promise controller has nothing to do with this and works very well.
> 
> I'm planning to buy a ASUS A7VL-VM for a low-cost server. I'm just worried
> how would FreeBSD behave with this chipset.
> 
> My concern is: how many of you are running FreeBSD fine with Asus A7V133,
> A7VL-VM or similar motherboards with VT82C686B?
> 
> Thank you.
> Conrado
> 
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