Hi,

On 19 Jul 2001, at 13:54, Rick Kelly wrote:

> The VIA chipset did seem to have some ide problems with NetBSD 1.5,
> but they seem to have been fixed in 1.5.1.

I followed the discussion about the 686a/b southbridge. There were some 
suggestions, that not the southbridge itself caused problems but the 
northbridge. Some DMA(?) problems seemed to occur, thus when using more 
ATA devices the higher DMA utilization will show the effects of the problem 
more often. I do not know if these problems have been traced down to their 
source and a conclusion has been found, all I can say is that one board I have 
with AMD north and Via southbridge has no problem here.

mike