On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 10:05:34AM -0400, Anne Bennett wrote:
> 
> I just replaced a flaky motherboard on my P III system.  The new
> motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-6VTXE-A.  Things seem to mostly work
> fine, except for these oddities:
> 
> [...]
>  - I don't *think* this is related, but it is anomalous.  The IDE
>    disks seem to have their handling adjusted now.  Extract from boot
>    messages:
> 
>      --- OLD MOTHERBOARD:
>      wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 (Ultra/66)
>        (using DMA data transfers)
> 
>      --- NEW MOTHERBOARD:
>      wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
>        (using DMA data transfers)
>      wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 2
>      wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33)
>        (using DMA data transfers)
>      wd0d: error reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying
>      wd0: (aborted command, interface CRC error)
>      wd0: soft error (corrected)

Hum, via chipset.
Please try NetBSD 1.6.1, there have been fixes/improvements in VIA support
for pciide since 1.6.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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