Support of VIA Apollo Pro in 6.x is completely broken?

[Rashid N. Achilov]

I have some boxes, built on motherboards Gigabyte GB-6VA+ (VIA Apollo Pro 
chipset). Do not say me, that's bullshit, I know :-/

Some of these boxes works under 4.5-RELEASE, some under Windows 2000. Sometime 
it should be upgraded on to 6.x branch, but I cannot use it - when I install 
6.x on these boxes, I cannot bring up any network interface - link leds on 
card brights, but no any traffic can pass, even on neighbour box! I see 

xl0: watchdog timeout
xl0: watchdog timeout
...

messages on console.

Later. When connect HDD to motherboard through ordinary (40-wired) cable, 6.x 
says, that HDD is broken! I see endless messages

DMA_ERROR..., CRC_ERROR... etc

When I change cable to UDMA (80-wired) - all these messages are disapper

Later. When I boot box with "ACPI disabled" network cards works! But box hangs 
up after about 5-10 minutes of active work. Cooler does not stop but box 
hangs completely, only reset works.
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