From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 24 7:51:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CFE37BA78; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 07:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA61224; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:51:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:51:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Linh Pham Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, 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 On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Linh Pham wrote: > >I'm running FreeBSD 4.-STABLE on a Compaq iPaq P3-500, which is based on >the i810 chipset. The only problem that may still be an issue is getting >XFree86 4.0 to work with the integrated video chipset in the i810. Mind >you, this may have changed since the last time I asked some people on the >list. > >Also remember that there is also an i815e, which has the newer ICH-2 with >ATA/100, integrated Intel networking (?) for the CNR slot, and some other >newer features. Yes, thank you for bringing that up. There is only about a $20 price difference between boards using i815 and i815e w/ ICH and ICH2 respectively. The video is not a concern for me, I'm really just looking for a good replacement board for cheap PC servers since the BX boards are getting harder to find. The i815 boards look good because they have, for the most part, plenty of PCI slots and appear far more stable than the i820. I was going to choose the i815 over the i815e simply because the ICH is already supported and I can't antipicate how far off ICH2 support is under Soren's ata driver, nor is it that important to me. The only new feature the ICH2 appears to have is ATA100 and I have yet to see a pair of drives on one ide channel which can approach the capacity of ATA66, let alone ATA100. 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? 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