Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:49:28 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, "'Olivier Nicole'" <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Panic at setup time Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101241739410.65986-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101241530360.7905-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I'm just trying to say don't go out of your way to get it, since it > > isn't worth the trouble, IMHO. If you happen to buy a new system with > > it, great. If the new system doesn't have it, no big loss. > > Hmm. Not sure I entirely agree. > > I'd restate it as: > > "If the new system you're getting doesn't have UDMA66 or better- I > hope you're getting this system at a discount. Otherwise, you're > being taken advantage of as suppliers try and dump pretty old > technology out of their inventories." Err, well, not really. It doesn't have to be someone dumping old technology on you, it could be your choice, and for good reason. For example, you might want to buy a 440BX based board, which only have ATA33 support (unless the board maker adds a second ATA66/100 interface, but only a couple of BX boards actually have that), since the "old" 440BX still outruns the newer Intel chipsets in memory performance, among other things, and is definately the most mature chipset among them. We did exactly that up until we couldn't get our favorite BX-based board from our supplier anymore. That is also what prompted me to make the comment, since not only had I been reading in many places that ATA66/100 had shown very little humanly-noticeable difference, I got to experience the same thing first hand with our new ATA100 systems when comparing to our "old" ATA33 systems. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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