Nick WB wrote:- > For anyone interested; the only way to mix scsi and ide on a pc is to > use an ide drive as the boot drive with attendant performance > problems.
I have to disagree :-) My current system is all SCSI, but I have mixed in the past when I couldn't afford all SCSI and wanted to make use of the existing IDE drive. You can have a SCSI drive as the boot drive AND an IDE as a secondary drive(s). All you need is a decent BIOS (like Phoenix, Award, American Megatrends etc) on a motherboard from a decent manufacturer that gives you an option for your boot order. Here you can choose the first device that the BIOS will look for to boot from, SCSI, IDE, floppy etc. The differences of the menus vary greatly between manufacturers, and even within manufacturers different boards, so the exact 'location' of this setting will vary tremendously - but it should be there in most, if not all, recent (and not so recent!) motherboards! You will keep all the speed benefits of the SCSI drive being the system drive, whilst being able to shove in one, or two, IDE's for a bit extra storage space where the speed issue is not so important. HTH Kind regards Duncan Lawson =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
