From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 4 0:22:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D8837B40E; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.140.38.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.140.38]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA02853; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B948149.1FE08591@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 00:22:49 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Charles Shannon Hendrix , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors References: <200109010033.f810XaT08748@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20010902001113.B27595@widomaker.com> <20010902102548.C64910@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien 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. Are you sure it's not just a CMD640 IDE controller? They are known to have issues; Linux has a patch... FreeBSD used to, but I think it got yanked out, or was just turned off by default. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message