From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 04:50:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F1D16A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:50:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [66.111.41.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A6243D3F for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:50:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 879D3976; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8634B94C; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:50:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Wes Peters In-Reply-To: <200404090819.52092.wes@softweyr.com> Message-ID: <20040412044430.N6723-100000@moo.sysabend.org> X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PR#61320 support for ICH5 on-board fxp X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 11:50:17 -0000 On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Wes Peters wrote: > On Wednesday 07 April 2004 02:09, Stefan Bethke wrote: > > may I direct some committers' attention to this PR? I just got four > > excellent Tyan Tomcat i875P (with serial console redirection!), and > > would prefer not to have to patch the source when 5.3 comes along... > If you're planning to use the ICH5 S/ATA controller, you might not feel > they're quite so excellent pretty quickly... there be dragons. People keep saying this, but my Abit IC7 is i875P/ICH5, and I'm using 4 ATA devices along with the SATA drive that hosts FBSD with no problem. I haven't CVSup'd a recently, but I do run a -C (my last checkout on my desktop was Feb. 14) and it works great (I checkout regular updates on my laptop, but I'm conservative with my desktop on this front). Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen