with dma enabled, a sysinstall will only work under the minimal install, and after a certain point, apparently using too much hard drive space (showed up with a tar -xvf ports.tar) causes a panic with anic errors disabling dma seems to solve all of my problems (just runs slowly, of course) ------ -bash-2.05b$ dmesg|grep atapci atapci0: <VIA 82C686B UDMA100 controller> port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 7.1 on pci0 atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data corruption bug ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 atapci0: <VIA 82C686B UDMA100 controller> port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 7.1 on pci0 atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data corruption bug ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ----- Here are the specifications to my recent a7v-ve mainboard purchase http://www.hp.com/cposupport/personal_computing/support_doc/bph07371.html I have also updated to the latest bios ---- Here are the specifications to my recent western digital harddrive purchase http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=36 the computer runs on that motherboard with an amd 1600+, and with that hard drive thanks, ryanReceived on Sat Aug 02 2003 - 18:21:29 UTC
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