From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 27 14:53:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0FB237B405 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:53:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ubik.demon.co.uk ([194.222.125.229]) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 16JjOz-000HbV-0Y; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:53:30 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:52:17 +0000 To: Predius Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Anthony Naggs Subject: Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers) References: <005101c18ee1$9b5d66e0$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION> In-Reply-To: <005101c18ee1$9b5d66e0$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U 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 In article <005101c18ee1$9b5d66e0$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION>, Predius writes >There are a couple known issues going on with the VIA Chipset line (Some >acknowledge by VIA partially, some not.) beyond just the 686B bug. > >Here's a couple sites with details. Myself, I think it's a BIOS writer's >problem as well, but unfortunatly with most VIA boards, their goal is >performance over stability, leaving people like us SOL. > >http://www.networking.tzo.com/net/software/ >http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/813/1.html <- In german, bring your fish This story, about all VIA chipsets having poor throughput with Ultra-ATA/133 controllers and other fast PCI adapters is available in English: http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html The links are largely German. Follow the "[Weiter >>]" links to page through the story, or download the PDF version. Cheers, Tony (with a VIA 686A on my system board) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message