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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (96315)	3/2/2000 3:25:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1573219

Eric, Speaking of Adaptec, they dropped the ball on their 32bit Windows 2000 support. Last time I checked, the Win2k driver for their 3 channel RAID controller (the one I was interested in) is scheduled for May, and there were other cards with the same ETA on their schedule. In fact, none of their RAID controllers were included in retail version of Win2k. Since they are late delivering drivers for the operating system (Win2k) that itself is years late, how ready do you think they will be if Microsoft ships Win2k64 on time? When/if you start seeing commits on the OS from Microsoft, Sledgehammer could get more interesting - till then it's a "Don't care". I think it will shift to the "Care" category when AMD starts migrating their high end desktop and workstation line from ThunderBird and Mustang to SledgeHammer. Joe

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (96315)	3/3/2000 12:09:00 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1573219

Re: Adaptec's 64-bit drivers.... Adaptec doesn't make high end disk controllers - they offer no product suitable for the type of system being proposed as a platform for Itanium. This announced support is certainly not a bad thing for Itanium, but more relevant would be support from Mylex and AMI (which may exist, but I haven't seen it yet). In the coming weeks and months, we will all also have to be careful not to confuse support for 64 bit PCI with support for a 64 bit OS. Remember, Pentium classic, K6, Celeron, Athlon, even Cyrix are all 64 bit in the sense that the memory bus between the CPU and Chipset, and the main backside memory bus are 64 bits wide (except in Rambus systems which are 16 or 32 bit memory bus). 64 bit PCI does exist in conjunction with 32 bit processors and operating systems. Check out: megatrends.com mylex.com for some 64 bit SCSI controllers (that work with 32 bit CPUs and OSs) Dan