Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] scsi on board
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? Thanks, Mark ---
Michael Lankton wrote:
This may be a really stupid question, but I have never had anything scsi so I really don't know. I am getting ready to order a new mboard/cpu, and the for a very small amount extra I can get the same motherboard I'm looking at now with an on-board scsi adapter. Both my hard drives are ide, but I need another one soon. Can I run both ide and scsi drives on my system or can you not mix and match?
Yes, you can have both. The new Tyan dual P-II has Adaptec 2940 on board.
Fred
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Typically, you will have an IDE controller on-board by "default". But not all boards have SCSI controllers on-board. Does this answer your question? Regards, Kenneth Tan On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, 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?
Thanks,
Mark
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Michael Lankton wrote:
This may be a really stupid question, but I have never had anything scsi so I really don't know. I am getting ready to order a new mboard/cpu, and the for a very small amount extra I can get the same motherboard I'm looking at now with an on-board scsi adapter. Both my hard drives are ide, but I need another one soon. Can I run both ide and scsi drives on my system or can you not mix and match?
Yes, you can have both. The new Tyan dual P-II has Adaptec 2940 on board.
Fred
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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
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