Just thought I'd post this, in case anyone is interested.. I've had trouble finding decent-priced SCSI drives that had built-in termination (do they even exist anymore?!?), so after going thru three different drives, I decided I'd do something a little nutty... ..I went down to the local PC wholesale shop thing and got myself a Promise Ultra100 PCI card and an 20GB IDE drive (the two together were $150...... sure beat the $260 for a SCSI drive of the same size). I was certain it wouldn't work, but lo and behold, it was probably one of the least painful things I've installed in a while :) Two sets of kernel patches (Michel Lanner's PCI patches and Hedrik's IDE patches), one kernel build, and bingo, works like a charm. Not to mention it's loads faster than my SCSI drives (mostly because they are on the int MESH SCSI controller, and I didn't feel like shelling out $300 for a good SCSI controller). Needless to say, 13MB/s is not *that* bad, and 20GB for $150 ($105 for the drive) just can't be beat.
Anyhow, just thought I'd let everyone know, just in case anyone out there needs some massive space cheap.. Regards, Jonathan
