On 14/3/03 7:29 pm, "Jay Myrdal" wrote: > Nick Wilcox-Brown included the following in his recommendations for setting up > a PhotoShop workstation..... > > "DO NOT mix scsi and IDE drives in the same machine"
I don't use PC's, so I'm not an expert in any sense, in this area. However, I'm intrigued by this thread, so had a quick search on Google. One of the top results was this link http://storagereview.com/welcome.pl/http://storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/h dd/if/scsi/confIDE.html One of my favourite sites. Its only a short piece, but very interesting (see the bottom of the page) One of the quotes is as follows: In most cases, IDE and SCSI devices can be combined without too much difficulty. In particular, adding non-hard-disk SCSI devices to an existing IDE/ATA system rarely poses much of a problem. The difficulties seem to be largely confined to mixing SCSI and IDE/ATA hard disks. In particular, many people who mix SCSI and IDE hard disks want to boot from the SCSI drive, because it is probably the fastest one in the system. However, by default, PCs will look for and boot the first IDE/ATA drive they see in the system, since the system BIOS natively supports IDE/ATA and not SCSI. This causes fits for people who have been using an all-SCSI system and add an IDE drive, and find the PC now wants to boot the new drive. End quote: Is this the problem you were referring to Nick? Or is there some kind of performance loss? I'm interested since I run both on my machine (mac) > Does anyone have any actual experience mixing drives? The cost of some of the > IDE drives around makes it tempting to include one or two just to expand > capacity from time to time, especially when speed is not so important. On a Mac, I've been using both without any noticeable problems. But I can't guarantee that they wouldn't work better if the other wasn't present? Paul -- Paul Tansley Fashion & Beauty Photography London +44 (0) 7973 669584 http://www.paultansley.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
