Re: SCSI vs S-ATA

From: Melodie Young (mely_at_kirkwoodelectric.com)
Date: 08/06/04


Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:47:22 -0400

Steve - Please stop shedding light upon the root. You're only wasting your
time and assisting root make what should be a simple thread into an
annoyance for all readers.

Root - perhaps this behavior is acceptable in other NGs you frequent, but
not in an SBS NG.

Now, if we all ignore him he will go away.

Melodie

"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster@picamar.co.uk> wrote in message
news:xn0dlol5l4m0kgm00g@msnews.microsoft.com...
> root wrote:
>
> > The trouble with AMD classically is that they always used VIA
> > chipsets and classically they never worked reliably nor robustly.
> > That went on for long enough such that I wont look again at AMD until
> > there's a considerable history of AMD being OK. OR maybe when Intel
> > starts making chipsets for Opterons<G>.
>
> Would that be the same Via that supplies Intel with chipsets?
>
> And AMD must be doing something right for Intel to copy them (and
> tacitly admit that Itanium is essentially a failure).
>
> --
> Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
> ---------------------------------------
> MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.



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