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To: cinap_lenrek@gmx.de, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] VIA VT8237 SATA/RAID i/o errors, dma doesnt work
Date: Tue,  5 Feb 2008 19:48:09 +0000
From: Robert Raschke <rrplan9@tombob.com>
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There are a few VIA boards out there that have broken disk interfaces.
Depending on how you interpret a lot of discussion on the VIA forums,
these are due to the BIOS or not (at least, on some boards a BIOS
upgrade fixed the issue, or so it is claimed).  I got myself a cheap
EPIA5000 (I think) and could not get anything running stable on it
when using a disk.  It runs a Plan9 terminal without a disk no
problems, but even installing FreeBSD just randomly starts freezing or
rebooting.

I am running a CPU/file server on a VIA 10000 (not sure which one, I'm
not close, so I can't check) and that runs fine.

Robby