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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:46:47 +0100 (CET)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        Matthew Gilbert <agilbertm@earthlink.net>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers
Message-ID:  <200112270946.fBR9kln97712@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <E16JUp5-0002FR-00@pampa.cs.huji.ac.il>

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It seems Danny Braniss wrote:
> > It seems Matthew Gilbert wrote:
> > > >     So, general question to everyone having crashes during heavy
> > > >     IDE workloads:  Please post your /var/run/dmesg.boot
> > > >     output.
> > 
> > > atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller> port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on 
> > 
> > You have the VIA 82c686b southbridge chip which is known to cause severe
> > data corruption problems if the BIOS does not setup the northbidge
> > chip correctly. Please check with your board vendor if they have a
> > new updated BIOS that fixes this problem.
> [...]
> 
> Søren,
> 	I have an AOpen MB, and I just read all their fixes, but none
> seem to relate to the VIA 82c686b problem, is there, or could there be
> a list of OK Bios/MB?

Not that I know of, most serious vendors list the 686b problem in
on of their updates, but some only engages it if they also find
a SB live! card in the system since that really breaks :)

-Søren

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