"Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have a look at www.viahardware.com, where they test a variety of boards
> for the data corruption bug.
For the lazy, the URL is:
http://www.viahardware.com/686b_1.shtm
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Darryl Okahata
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On Friday 31 August 2001 02:22 am, Darryl Okahata wrote:
>
> Heh. I'm writing this on an Asus A7M266 (I didn't want to wait for
> the nForce).
Speaking of whichare the freeBSD team working on supporting the nForce
(does anyone know?) or are we going to have to wait for support? (I gue
On Thursday 30 August 2001 08:17 pm, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> "Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's probably not the Athlon CPU that's the issue for either FreeBSD or
> > Linux, but the motherboard chip sets. From personal experience, the
> > first Linux 2.4 kernels weren't very happy
Allen Landsidel wrote:
>
> At 01:22 8/31/2001 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote:
>
> > Do a google groups search on "via chipset ide corruption". You
> >might be surprised at what you find. Just because you don't have
> >problems, doesn't mean that the problem doesn't exist.
>
> Ok I'll give y
Juha Saarinen writes:
> It's probably not the Athlon CPU that's the issue for either FreeBSD
> or Linux, but the motherboard chip sets. From personal experience,
> the first Linux 2.4 kernels weren't very happy with VIA chip sets,
> which are commonly used for Athlon boards. It's mainly IDE issu
At 01:22 8/31/2001 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> Do a google groups search on "via chipset ide corruption". You
>might be surprised at what you find. Just because you don't have
>problems, doesn't mean that the problem doesn't exist.
Ok I'll give you that much.
But the flip side of tha
Allen Landsidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133
> >chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such
> >motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the
> >difference?). For more info, che
At 18:17 8/30/2001 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133
>chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such
>motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the
>difference?). For more info, check
