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.
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