Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 09:18:36 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <3B94D4AC.6B08187C@mitre.org> References: <200109010033.f810XaT08748@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20010902001113.B27595@widomaker.com> <20010902102548.C64910@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B948149.1FE08591@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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. I didn't think anybody used the CMD640 anymore (not since early Pentium days even). Anyway sys/pci/ide_pci.c still has the workaround for the CMD640, it's just not a kernel option anymore because FreeBSD automagically detects and installs the workaround now if you have one. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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