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Date:      Thu, 06 May 1999 15:01:56 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Daniel Lundqvist <daniel@noc.dn.se>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Microstar mainboard 
Message-ID:  <199905062201.PAA01644@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 May 1999 00:00:15 %2B0200." <19990507000015.A23308@noc.dn.se> 

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> One more try :)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just bought a Microstar MS6120N dual mainboard and i have couple of
> problems:
> 
> 	1:	The kernel spits out "Bad SMBIOS table checksum!"
> 		when it boots,it seems to work ok anyway,but it would
> 		be nice to know what's wrong

It's a harmless warning; we don't use the SMBIOS stuff.  I put the code 
to find the table in back when it looked like it would be useful, but 
most motherboard vendors are putting all their code in drivers for a 
certain system management package rather than the BIOS.

> 	2:	FreeBSD doesn't find any of the onboard IDE controllers

Don't know about this one.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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