Ralf, Apologies for my previous "reply", which was not a reply, only my having hit Opera's "send" button by error!
>> Cannot answer on all subjects, but re: disk/CD/DVD drivers, I am NOT >> overly optimistic! Intel/Microsoft want us all to "buy into" AHCI, >> and they may have started "ordering" mainboard vendors to omit SATA/ >> IDE logic from their BIOS routines. > > Do you have a source for this statement? No, I do not. However, having seen the way Intel forced VESA and AGP out-of-business (to name only two), one can "expect" Intel has its guns aimed against SATA, as well, in favor of AHCI. Intel is in business to sell-Sell-SELL new chips, after all! > Sorry, but this completely contradicts the latest "Ivy bridge" > chipset just released, which includes 6 SATA/eSATA ports... Well, I would say "Saints be Praised"! Perhaps I am not the only one who regards AHCI as a big waste-of-time. Or money -- Is this new Intel chipset intended to be a "low cost" model? I will wait to see if Intel later releases an "Ivy Bridge" that uses AHCI, and if so, which one (SATA or AHCI) "prevails" in the marketplace. Jack R. Ellis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
