Re: VIA chipset

Marco Colombo (marco@esi.it)
Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:13:17 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Jussi Laako wrote:

> Marco Colombo wrote:
> >
> > Sorry to bother you again with this issue, Alan... by 'AMD chipsets'
> > you mean BOTH north and south bridges (eg. 761 + 766) or does it include
> > also AMD NB + VIA SB combo?
> > AMD 761 + VIA 686B based MBs are quite common this days: are they "safe"
> > (do you have failure reports)?
>
> At least my ASUS A7M266 works very well. It has AMD 761 nb and VIA 686B sb
> and the 686B is used only for IDE and IO interfaces. PCI bus comes from the
> 761, AFAIK.
>
> - Jussi Laako
>

Thanks for your answer! Can you please confirm me that both the ATA/100
controller (at ATA/66 or ATA/100 speed) and Athlon optimized kernels work?

.TM.

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