There are a few VIA boards out there that have broken disk interfaces. Depending on how you interpret a lot of discussion on the VIA forums, these are due to the BIOS or not (at least, on some boards a BIOS upgrade fixed the issue, or so it is claimed). I got myself a cheap EPIA5000 (I think) and could not get anything running stable on it when using a disk. It runs a Plan9 terminal without a disk no problems, but even installing FreeBSD just randomly starts freezing or rebooting.
I am running a CPU/file server on a VIA 10000 (not sure which one, I'm not close, so I can't check) and that runs fine. Robby
