From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 24 10:22:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9749A37B870; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6OHIoP32867; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:18:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:18:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Mike Smith , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel i815 w/ ICH using ata driver In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The CNR is supposedly a special port (neither PCI or ISA) that has a pipe directly into the chipset and uses the chipset as a ``gateway'' for I/O. I'm not sure how resources are allocated for those devices, but I definitely agree that there is nothing better than a good, reliable and non-cheapo Ethernet PCI card. // Linh Pham // // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org /* "Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night." */ On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > >> Other than that > >> it's all the same, you can even get standard i815 boards with CNR on > >> them. BTW, is anybody using CNR and reading this list? Does it behave > >> like a normal PCI device and does the stock fxp driver support the > >> drop-in Intel NICs? > > > >If you're asking about the built-in NIC in the ICH2 - no. Bill Paul and > >I looked at the datasheet, and it's going to require a new driver. > > I suppose that is what I'm asking about, Intel's marketing hype is so > unclear on just what it is. If it's not supported it doesn't bother me, > as it looks like on most motherboards it won't save a PCI slot anyway, > it looks shared just like they do with ISA stuff. Better to use the > slot for a real NIC. > > BTW Mike, your work on the Adaptec RAID stuff looks impressive. I can't > believe Adaptec finally caved and released specs on their raid > controllers, it's great! Is there any chance that those zero channel > raid add-ons like the ARO-1130 from Adaptec or Express 000 from AMI will > ever be supported? I don't know how those things are implemented, but > if they were supported I could add RAID to about half of my motherboards > cheaply. =P > > Brandon D. Valentine > -- > bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu > "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message