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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:19:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel i815 w/ ICH using ata driver
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241113310.60410-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
In-Reply-To: <200007241503.RAA92300@freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:

>Support for the ICH2 should be pretty trivial, as soon as I get my hands
>on either a board, or a willing/capable tester it should be easy to
>get into shape.

Well I'm fixing to buy two boards to build new FreeBSD servers.  They
should be booting off of 4.5GB SCSI UW HDDs and one of them will have a
4 channel 3Ware IDE RAID card in it(you rock msmith!).  At this point I
think I have decided not to use the onboard IDE channels, so it wouldn't
hurt to get the ICH2 boards anyway if you're planning on supporting them
in the future.  Perhaps if I did that I could at least give you access
to the hardware, even if it isn't in use.  I might even be able to scare
up a hard drive to attach to it, if we're lucky.  I just can't have
those machines going up and down all the time so I won't be able to do
much testing for ya.  If you're interested in at least some hardware
dumps on the controller, let me know and I'll send them your way when I
get the board in.

>> The only new feature the ICH2 appears to have is
>> ATA100 and I have yet to see a pair of drives on one ide channel which
>> can approach the capacity of ATA66, let alone ATA100.  Other than that
>
>Well the new IBM DTLA drives does 37MB/s so things are getting narrow,
>but if you want top performance you only want one drive on each
>channel, and in that case it doesn't matter much...

Touche.

Brandon D. Valentine
-- 
bandix at looksharp.net  |  bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu
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