I wrote a bit hastily: > At the risk of repeating myself, there are several VIA boards that > have issues with DMA (not necessarily isolated to HDD). Your best bet > is to have a trawl through the VIA forums (www.viaarena.com) and look > for DMA related crashes being reported. Maybe you've got one of those > troublesome models.
Sorry, wrote this before I spotted your other emails about working around the issue using retries. I should try again to get my VIAs to work with a similar workaround. Robby