netbsd-users: Re: Any gotchas for NetBSD install with the following hardware?

Subject: Re: Any gotchas for NetBSD install with the following hardware?
To: Trey Sizemore <trey@thesizemores.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/03/2007 21:30:31

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:43:25PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I want to install NetBSD 3.1 on the following hardware:
> 
> Intel Classic Series Desktop Board DG965SS
> Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6400
> 2x 500GB Maxtor SATA2 drives
> 
> The SATA drives are set to use IDE vs. AHCI in the BIOS (no real need
> for AHCI for a desktop machine that I can tell).

If you have more than 2 SATA devices, AHCI will give you a performance
boost. Also ahci will support NCQ in the future.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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