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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:38:16 +1100
From:      Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au>
To:        Erich Jenkins <emjenki@uswest.com>
Cc:        Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ultra 100 hard drive support
Message-ID:  <20001018123816.B20513@albury.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <8825697C.000ACC53.00@notes.uswc.uswest.com>; from emjenki@uswest.com on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:57:22PM -0500
References:  <8825697C.000ACC53.00@notes.uswc.uswest.com>

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Thus spake Erich Jenkins (emjenki@uswest.com):

> I would like to know if the current Stable release of FreeBSD supports
> the Ultra100 hard drive interface? I will be installing it on a set of
> three servers for 3D modeling and topological analysis soon and need
> very fast hard drive access, limited only to the capability of the
> systems it is being installed on.

4.1.1-RELEASE and later support ATA-100 controllers. If you really need
a fast system, though, I'd go for SCSI. Remember IDE still depends on the
host CPU for a lot of work.


Nick

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