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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:53:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel i815 w/ ICH using ata driver 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241243020.61910-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
In-Reply-To: <200007241649.JAA23215@mass.osd.bsdi.com>

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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Mike Smith wrote:

>> 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?
>
>If you're asking about the built-in NIC in the ICH2 - no.  Bill Paul and 
>I looked at the datasheet, and it's going to require a new driver.

I suppose that is what I'm asking about, Intel's marketing hype is so
unclear on just what it is.  If it's not supported it doesn't bother me,
as it looks like on most motherboards it won't save a PCI slot anyway,
it looks shared just like they do with ISA stuff.  Better to use the
slot for a real NIC.

BTW Mike, your work on the Adaptec RAID stuff looks impressive.  I can't
believe Adaptec finally caved and released specs on their raid
controllers, it's great!  Is there any chance that those zero channel
raid add-ons like the ARO-1130 from Adaptec or Express 000 from AMI will
ever be supported?  I don't know how those things are implemented, but
if they were supported I could add RAID to about half of my motherboards
cheaply.  =P

Brandon D. Valentine
-- 
bandix at looksharp.net  |  bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu
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