On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 07:38:59PM -0500, Video Mike wrote:

> I have a Gigabyte mainboard with the VIA chipset running V1.5.1 and I'm 
> unable to write to the Zip drive
> mounted as follows:
> 
>     #mount -t msdos -o -l /dev/sd0h /mnt
> 
> When I do a write to it as in the following, I get the error messages to 
> stdout as below:
> 
>     #cp /netbsd /mnt
>     pciide0:1:0: lost interrupt
>     type: atapi tc_bcount: 2048 tc_skip: 0
> 
> This keeps on going and it is not possible to ^c out of this.  I have 
> tried different BIOS settings, but,
> this doesn't help.  Otherwise, the system works just great!

Are you able to try this on a non-VIA chipset motherboard?

There are some problems with the VIA IDE controller which can cause
nasty things to happen.

> Keep up the great work on an excellent operating system!

glad you like it :-)

g.