This thread brought a question to my mind. The advice to buy a PCI ATA card
to use IDE drives makes me ask; "Can you use an SCSI and a IDE drive in the
same machine?" I have a 7600/G3 with an open PCI slot and I could use a big ide
drive.
Sure. I put an ACard IDE Controller into a 7500 with a 60G drive attached. Initially I had the old 4Gb SCSI in there too to copy the files over. At that point I removed the SCSI drive, no point in adding 4Gb to a 60Gb machine. The IDE controller actually makes the drives appear as SCSI to the computer. The means you can't move an IDE drive to/from a computer with built in IDE to an ACard controller without reformatting the drive.
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Clark Martin
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