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Josh L. <jl194@acmex.gatech.edu> wrote:
> From all I've been able to tell, the only thing about the BP6 that isn't
> top-notch is the on board IDE controllers.  If you use SCSI, as I do, 
> this board will never give you any problems.  I ran my BP6 for around 
> 1.5 years and never had a hint of a problem with it.

s/IDE controllers/UDMA66 controller/

The onboard PIIX4 chip is a rock-solid controller, thankyouverymuch.

The HPT366 suffers from being a 1st-gen part, but once you upgrade to the
latest BIOS and driversets, I haven't heard of any problems cropping up.

Rather, the HPT366's real failing is that it's on the PCI bus, and not
part of the [BX] motherboard chipset.  As thus, it uses a PCI IRQ, and has
to go through the PCI bridge, instead of just being "there".

Now that said, IDE sux0rs.  SCSI rules!

...now when is AMD ever going to release a SMP-capable Athlon chipset?

 - Pizza
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