On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:16:59AM -0700, Brian Sullivan wrote: > I have been looking at two SCSIDE converters, both are > around the same price of $100. One is the IDSC21-E > from IO Data > (http://www.iodata.com/products/idsc/idsc21e/IDSC21-E.htm) > and the other is the ARS-2000UB Bridge Smart from > ACARD Technologies (http://www.acard.com). The acard > product is actually a complete external drive bay that > does the conversion while the IO Data product is just > an adapter you plug into the back of the drive. The > IDE/SCSI software emulation probably won't work for me > due to the heavy load I am putting on my IDE hard > drive and bus. I am afraid if I used it the failure > rate of the DVD-R burns would increase dramatically. > My load consists during the DVD-R burn consists of > simultaneously FTPing another 4.7 GB for my next DVD-R > disc, creating the 4.7 GB ISO file for the next burn > from this FTP'd data as well as creating seven 670 MB > ISO files of the same data to burn to CD-R, and of > course the actual burning of 4.7 GB to DVD-R and 4.7 > GB across seven CD-R drives (all SCSI). Surprinsingly > this is all running fine just fine on a Dell Dimension > 4100 desktop PC with a Quantum Fireball IDE hard > drive. My failure rate is probable about 1 in 50 right > now if not better. Hopefully you can see why I would > be hesitant to adding more load the hard drive.
It might be cheaper to simply get a dedicated ide ontroller for the HD (like the cards made by Promise), and use the normal ide controller for the DVD. Puts less load on the scsi bus too. Not sure. I suspect a native scsi version of the drive must exist, since pioneer intends to support it in their CD/DVD jukebox machines soon, and the jukeboxes are scsi only. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
