Is there a list of ones that do work well?
Paul Goyette wrote:
> That mo-bo has ACPI problems with amd64.  It will run Ok
> on i-386. 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: port-amd64-owner@NetBSD.org 
>> [mailto:port-amd64-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of Merritt Draney
>> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 11:07 AM
>> To: port-amd64@NetBSD.org
>> Subject: Sata troubles again
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>> I just bought a amd64 system Asus A8N5x motherboard, Athlon 
>> 64 X2 4400, 
>> and Western Digital Sata 40 Gig HD.  I can get 3.0 it installed even 
>> though I get this error once the hard drive is mounted
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>> viaide(2:0:0) lost interupt
>> type:  ata tc_bcount 16384 tc_skip: 0
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>> Once I first boot it up it always hangs at
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>> wd0 at atabus4 drive 0
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>> during boot up
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>> I have tried the acpimp and acpi kernels put up here last 
>> month also and 
>> they all do the same thing.  I have not seen this specific error as I 
>> have gone through much of this list.  Any ideas? 
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>> Also of note the 3.0 i386 acpimp kernel on the install disk 
>> works but it 
>> is totally i386 once installed.  It did crash on me while 
>> building world 
>> though but other than that it fairly stable and quite fast 
>> running both 
>> cpus.  Any ideas?  I am willing to be a guinea pig though I 
>> might need 
>> to get a new hard drive just for testing purposes.  Thank you again.
>>
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