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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a831
- From: David_Car@mindlink.bc.ca (David Car)
- Subject: IDE for SCSI trade
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:04:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <18704@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > David Car writes:
- >
- >
- > I have the opportunity to switch from 2 105MB Quantum IDE's to a 200MB SCSI
- > drive including swapping controllers for no cost. Is this a worthwhile
- jump?
- > I often hear that SCSI drives are better and that as I'm always expanding
- > because of AutoCAD and 3DStudio, SCSI seems to be able to better attach
- more
- > drives. I'm also looking to buy a CDROM soon which I believe is also SCSI.
- > Just wanted some opinions as I'm not too familiar with SCSI.
- >
- > thanks,
- > dave..
- >
-
- > Steven Lam writes:
- >
- >
- > Hmm.. That depend on what kind of SCSI drive is it. Some of them are
- really
- > dogs! What kind of controller are you getting too also make a GREAT
- > difference. Most IDE drives may have not so spectacular performance but
- they
- > work fine and has few if nay compatability problems. Same can not be said
- of
- > SCSI drives!
- >
-
-
- > David Car writes:
- > I'll try to check what type of drive and controller it is and see if it's
- > worth it.
- >
- > thanks,
- > dave..
-
-
- Well, I've checked out the drive and controller. The drive is a 200MB
- Quantum
- Prodrive and the SCSI adapter is by Always Technology (IN-2000) and is a
- Novell Certified controller. Both are exactly 1 year old and were totally
- not used for 2 months of that year. Is this a good deal?
-
- Also, I've only dealt with IDE drives. Is it much different/difficult to
- format a SCSI? Do you have to low level format them and how is that done? I
- use Stacker. Are there any problems with Stacker and SCSI's?
-
- Any information is much appreciated as I'm not too sure if I should jump into
- this one. It sounds ok.
-
- Thanks,
- dave..
-
-
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- * David Car @ MindLink! BBS - Vancouver, BC Canada *
- * David_Car@mindlink.bc.ca *
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