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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: PR#61320 support for ICH5 on-board fxp
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On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Wes Peters wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 April 2004 02:09, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > may I direct some committers' attention to this PR? I just got four
> > excellent Tyan Tomcat i875P (with serial console redirection!), and
> > would prefer not to have to patch the source when 5.3 comes along...
>
> If you're planning to use the ICH5 S/ATA controller, you might not feel
> they're quite so excellent pretty quickly... there be dragons.

If this is the S2735, FreeBSD runs fine on it, even with the SATA in
enhanced mode.

Note that this may or may not extrapolate to similarly-equiped systems. :)

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