I found a page for the chip set for this machine:
http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_mini_itx_spec.jsp?motherboardId=21
My reading of:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-i386.html
...does not indicate goodness.
The OpenBSD story is slightly better; it claims to support ATA.
It seems not entirely unreasonable to assume that many functions of the chip
set are clones, more or less, of popular chips, but without getting my hands
on the machine so I can boot from CD and run dmesg, I'm wary. And in any
case a clone still must demonstrate its quality.
Maybe it's time to break down and check into Linux.
--
Pete Gontier <http://www.pete.gontier.org/>
"I'm not exactly in the mood for Mozart and all THAT kind of goings-on."
-- InSoc
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