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Date:      Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:32:17 +0200
From:      Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>
Cc:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Subject:   Re: ATA disk performance (ICH2 controller), some tests and comparison with Linux 2.6.5
Message-ID:  <200409261332.23227.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040926044943.I40616-100000@mxb.saturn-tech.com>
References:  <20040926044943.I40616-100000@mxb.saturn-tech.com>

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On Sunday 26 September 2004 12:50, Doug Russell wrote:
> 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!

Supporting and being used on common-but-not-so-good hardware is one of the 
best (and oldest) traditions of FreeBSD. :-)

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