Mark Wagnon wrote:
Just a quick question. If a motherboard has a scsi controller on board, does it also have ide/atapi on board? My motherboard had ide on board, but I needed to buy a scsi controller for my drives. My point? If it has scsi on board, will one have to buy and ide controller?
Usually m-boards with scsi built in also have ide built in. I don't think I've ever seen a Socket 7 board w/o ide controllers. If I knew of one I'd buy it. Ide is worthless to me, and I've been very happy with my all-scsi system. I usually turn the Ide controller off in the BIOS (or at least, try to). I know people who mix and match SCSI with IDE without a terrible amount of problems, but I don't think it's ideal. Really, if you're gonna have 3 hard-drives plus a cd-rom, you've left yourself no room for a jaz drive, a cd-writer, or another hd :-( I'd only suggest IDE to someone who wants a cheap system that they don't plan to upgrade to the nines. Elijah elijahu@mindspring.com - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e