On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:03, George Georgalis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:59:00AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > >> by the way, any baddies when it comes to mobo chipset? > > > >Nforce chipsets. AFAIK you need a non-free driver to make the LAN chip > >work. > > 'in the beginning' there was problems with the VIA IDE controller > drivers (ie, my chipset, a year or two ago) used on some boards > for amd CPUs. I'm now running a 2.4.20 kernel with compile option > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y and while I have no problems with disk > access, I'm not convinced all problems were addressed for the floppy > drive. I cannot always run fdformat /dev/fd0 (and I don't have removed > media mounted) but rebooting fixes it. > > I'm not sure exactly which components are relevant but am guessing > 'Apollo Super South' > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) > 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
I've got the same chipset you do (on an A7V133-C mobo) and have had none of those IDE problem, even back when others were complaining about them. Haven't formatted too many floppys, so can't speak to that... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I | | tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage | | the plane." | | RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines | | Flight 63 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
