Subject: Re: motherboard
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/21/2001 11:08:34
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:45:13PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> no problems I can see. Some VIA-based motherboards/RAM combination have
> problems with IDE (data corruption), so either avoid such a motherboard, or
> be prepared to get an add-on PCIIDE controller.

As far as I can tell, that only applies to older VIA-based boards.

I don't expect any problems with the boards described here, as I have
two of them, one of them is the machine I work with all day. It
has an 800Mhz Athlon and 512M of RAM.

- Frank