On Thursday 25 April 2002 07:24, Kevin Sexton wrote:
> Sorry to be a bother...  This is a follow up mail to "MSI Motherboard
> with VIA Bridges" I wrote some time ago.
>
> I went ahead and bought an Asus board, the A7V266-E/AA.  Now, it has VIA
> all over it which I was trying to avoid but that is hard in the AMD
> world it seems...  At least on the South bridges.  I did manage to avoid
> the 686B. The A7V266-E has a VIA VT8233 which is "recognized" by NetBSD
> as unknown VIA chipset.  All seems to work okay but IDE preformance is
> pretty darn slow.

I don't have this board, but do have a board with the VT8233 ATA100 
controller chipset - to get IDE performance I think you need a current 
kernel. I think Manuel introduced the required changes late in 2001. Mine 
runs as expected with 1.5ZA

>
> I have a few questions...  Is there anyone out there that uses this
> particular board?  If so, what are your experiences?  Also, I may try
> the A7A266 which uses the ALi chipets.  The South Bridge here is the
> 1535D+.  Any experiences here?
>
> Thank you for you help.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> --Kevin