Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:03:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: bandix@looksharp.net (Brandon D. Valentine) Cc: lplist@q.closedsrc.org (Linh Pham), sos@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel i815 w/ ICH using ata driver Message-ID: <200007241503.RAA92300@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241043460.60410-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> from "Brandon D. Valentine" at "Jul 24, 2000 10:51:35 am"
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It seems Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > Yes, thank you for bringing that up. There is only about a $20 price > difference between boards using i815 and i815e w/ ICH and ICH2 > respectively. The video is not a concern for me, I'm really just > looking for a good replacement board for cheap PC servers since the BX > boards are getting harder to find. The i815 boards look good because > they have, for the most part, plenty of PCI slots and appear far more > stable than the i820. I was going to choose the i815 over the i815e > simply because the ICH is already supported and I can't antipicate how > far off ICH2 support is under Soren's ata driver, nor is it that > important to me. 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. > 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... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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