Re: Old Possum's book of practical hosts.

Jasper Janssen <jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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'PC BIOS' is not a monolithic entity, you know. I haven't had these sorts
of problems with anything recent, ie P6-core and above, with reputable
motherboards installed.

Then you have been Very Lucky.

Of course, Extra Controller Cards and booting from them is always
something you avoid. But boot/OS disks on builtin and Big Disks on an
Extra Controller tends to be reasonably usable.

In theory, this is the case. In reality, after trying to get it to work
reliably, the air's blue, the dog's hiding under the bed and there's a PCI
card embedded in the wall.

The problem with Small Fruit is that you can only hang fw400/usb2 hard
drives off it, which may or may not be reliable and/or work and/or have
more speed than the gnat on a donkey's ass.

It doesn't seem to be any less reliable than $RANDOM_PCI_CARD, and the
performance is acceptable for my purposes.

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