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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:05:57 +0000
From: Asfand Yar Qazi <ay1204@qazi.f2s.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?
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Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:33:03AM +0000, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:
> 
>>No, but I do need NCQ
> 
> 
> Perhaps a stupid question... but: Why do you _need_ NCQ?  If you need it
> that badly (not sure why anyone would), you could always get SCSI or a
> 3ware controller.
> 

For the novelty value.

> NCQ is a nice feature, but hardly essential.

So is baking soda flavoured toothpaste - whats yer point? :-)

> 
> Len Sorensen
> 


Anyway, the 3ware controller (if it is avaliable for PCI express) 
sounds good.  Off-mainboard solutions tend to be quicker anyway.

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