> > If the Intel chip is I2O they will have. Of course the intel board being
> > I2O is probably something thats too bright an idea for chipzilla.
> 
> I don't see an overwhelming advantage for I2O.

Performancewise there are lots of good things on the SCSI and RAID side of
the design. The networking stuff is well designed but the cards now all do
this stuff anyway.

> I hear all of the claims, and most sound like one trick ponies e.g. networks
> cards that will do no-CPU-intervention bridging.

Which go back a good five or six years without I2O (Digi etc). The i2o stuff
has a limited notion of stuff like checksum computation, it has good scatter
gather as well.

The big advantage from Intels point of view is its a standard API so they can
hide all the terribly precious 8) secrets and let us drive the card, instead of
making everyone buy Acenics. Maybe thats a good thing however.

Alan

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