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	Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, "Wilkinson,
	Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: I/OAT ... Coming Soon ?
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Scott Ullrich writes:
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| On 11/15/07, Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> wrote:
| > FWIW, several of us should have motherboards that support it now.
| > For example the Dell PE29XX/PE1950 line now has support if you upgrade
| > old machines to a newer BIOS and then turn it on in the BIOS setup.
| > I'm not sure what em(4) cards support it.  So I think hardware should
| > be available now.  At the time the PE29XX family BIOS did not support it
| 
| I have a stack of Dell 2970's with Intel 1000 cards and will be happy
| to test this when a patch is available.  Thanks for working on this
| Jack!

Hmm, I forgot about the 2970 which are AMD based.  Can you check the
BIOS to see if there is an option to turn it on?  I think this is an
Intel feature.  AMD might have something close?  We have one 2970
that we've played with a little but not much.  I can't say for sure
if it has it.

Doug A.