From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 24 8:20:32 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 8CFCB37B61B; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:20:23 -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 LAA61435; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:19:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:19:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Soren Schmidt Cc: Linh Pham , sos@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel i815 w/ ICH using ata driver In-Reply-To: <200007241503.RAA92300@freebsd.dk> 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, Soren Schmidt wrote: >Support for the ICH2 should be pretty trivial, as soon as I get my hands >on either a board, or a willing/capable tester it should be easy to >get into shape. Well I'm fixing to buy two boards to build new FreeBSD servers. They should be booting off of 4.5GB SCSI UW HDDs and one of them will have a 4 channel 3Ware IDE RAID card in it(you rock msmith!). At this point I think I have decided not to use the onboard IDE channels, so it wouldn't hurt to get the ICH2 boards anyway if you're planning on supporting them in the future. Perhaps if I did that I could at least give you access to the hardware, even if it isn't in use. I might even be able to scare up a hard drive to attach to it, if we're lucky. I just can't have those machines going up and down all the time so I won't be able to do much testing for ya. If you're interested in at least some hardware dumps on the controller, let me know and I'll send them your way when I get the board in. >> 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 > >Well the new IBM DTLA drives does 37MB/s so things are getting narrow, >but if you want top performance you only want one drive on each >channel, and in that case it doesn't matter much... Touche. 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