Barry,
Just as information. While these motherboards have an additional ATA
66/100 ide controller built in, the system identifies the controller as an
scsi controller and the disk drives as scsi drives even though they aren't.
The additional controller from Highpoint or Promise was added to many bx
motherboards and some Via chipset motherboards whose main chipset didn't
support the ata 66/100 drive protocol. They would give you some higher
speeds and, of course the ability to connect a bunch of ide drives. My main
system on an MSI694 motherboard has a promise controller built in and is
running 7 ide devices without having to add a controller card. None of these
provide the performance of a true scsi controller. Now, many motherboards
are being produce with built in raid controllers and they do give you some
definite performance benefits.
Ben Moore
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Aronson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: PCWorks: Windows 2000 experts?
> Clint! Do you have a third party utility such as "Cacheman"? The
version
> 5 is quite extensively built. Also You confused me quite a bit as by your
> description of your IDE setup as actually SCSI. As you may remember I
have
> had a SCSI system for years and it truly is night and day between SCSI and
> their additional formats and EIDE or IDE or ATAPI etc. There is a
> different electrical setup and pin connection.
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