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

[Rashid N. Achilov]

On Sunday 21 October 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote:

> Hmm interesting -  I  couldn't actually find any specs for a G*B*-6VA+ 
> (only a GA-6VA+)... is it a VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset with slot-1 
> P-II/III?
Sorry, of course GA-6VA+. It is VIA Apollo Pro with Socket 370. Description at
http://tw.giga-byte.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=1442

> 
> If so I've run 6.x (a while ago so probably 6.0 or 6.1) on a Tyan 
> Trinity 400 (same chipset and cpu support)... and I used a 3Com 
> office-connect ethernet (xl based) card....without any issues. Maybe see 
> if Gigabyte have a more recent BIOS update for the board and update one 
> of them and re-test!
Newest BIOS for this mb is F8. These boxes already has F8. Some (at least 
three) boxes has completely similar troubles - so I think, it in chipset 
support. 4.5 has not ANY these troubles.

> 
> On the ATA cable front, assuming the chipset is as I guessed, the ATA 
> controller is ATA-66 capable, so yeah, best to use an 80-wire cable and 
> get *some* IO speed out of these old things!

Of course, best to use speedup. But, wheh I do not use, I shoud receive 
downgraded ,but working system, not false CRC ERROR!
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