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From: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>
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Subject: Re: ATA disk performance (ICH2 controller), some tests andcomparison
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On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> On Saturday 25 September 2004 23:45, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
> > 6)  I'm still amazed people have systems in production that use ICH2.
> > AFAIK, the chipset is deprecated.
>
> Eh? i845-based motherboards were not exactly a niche product and are not very
> ancient either. I'm surprised it surprises you to see them used. :-)

Bah!  Just because some hardware is common does not mean is is good!

Later......						<Doug>