From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 4: 3:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE26F1568F for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 04:03:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vallo@matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA0A2CE51 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:03:06 +0200 (EET) Received: by myhakas.matti.ee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6248FC3; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:03:10 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:03:10 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dilemma: what motherboard to choose? Message-ID: <20000113140310.A97843@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <20000113134210.A96929@myhakas.matti.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <20000113134210.A96929@myhakas.matti.ee>; from Vallo Kallaste on Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 01:42:10PM +0200 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 01:42:10PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > As the subject says I have two motherboards, both are Tyan Trinity 371, > one with Intel 440BX chipset and other with VIA VT82C693A (VIA Apollo > Pro Plus). VIA chipset supports 133Mhz bus and UDMA66, but I know that > the 440BX is known good. What do you suggest? Is the VIA VT82C596B ATA > controller supported? I don't see any pointers in the pcisupport.c, but > my sources are at least two weeks old. Does the newer VIA chipsets cause > any problems with i.e. TV-cards or other sensitive equipment? Oh, nevermind, I found the answer. The VIA Apollo Pro+ is the direct competitor to Intel's 440BX and apparently has no goodies over it and the compatibility problems persist. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message