At 12:33 PM 9/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
While on the subject Ben, your board is a dual processor one as I
understand it. You mentioned that some boards do not support ATA66/100 as
mine does not, as far as I have been told. When i purchased my board I
thought it was "state of the art" LOL Now I have to come to understand
that the board was "state of the art" for about 2 months.
I am going to install Win2K Pro very soon but have been hesitant about it
because of my processor and Mobo. PII 400 MHz SCSI Adaptec AIX7880
controller onboard Soltek SL67A-C motherboard 440 BX chipset. I also
wanted to buy a new hard drive but am in a quandary as to purchasing a
controller card to be able to maximize performance. My RAM is all PC100
equalled to 256 MB
In your experience what do you think is my best course and of course
economical as well :)?
Barry ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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