ATA disk performance (ICH2 controller), some tests and comparison with Linux 2.6.5

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Sunday 26 September 2004 12:50, Doug Russell wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 September 2004 23:45, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > 6)  I'm still amazed people have systems in production that use ICH2.
> > > AFAIK, the chipset is deprecated.
> >
> > Eh? i845-based motherboards were not exactly a niche product and are not
> > very ancient either. I'm surprised it surprises you to see them used. :-)
>
> Bah!  Just because some hardware is common does not mean is is good!

Supporting and being used on common-but-not-so-good hardware is one of the 
best (and oldest) traditions of FreeBSD. :-)

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