Any known issues regarding VIA IDE chips?

David Raistrick drais at atlasta.net
Tue Feb 24 09:25:13 PST 2004


On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Tony Frank wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble with a Aplus motherboard I have.
> Board is based around VIA 82C691 chipset with VIA 82C586B IDE chip.
> ata(4) shows the chip as being supported.

Perhaps try not using the primary controller at all, only using the
secondary?

I've seen problems that were specific to solid-state flash that happened
only on the primary, never on the secondary...it's possible you're running
into a variation on that theme.


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