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From: stu@mav.com (Stu Donaldson)
Subject: IDE vs SCSI  and intermixing the two.
Message-ID: <1993May13.182917.23510@mav.com>
Sender: stu@mav.com
Reply-To: stu@mav.com
Organization: Maverick International Inc.
Date: Thu, 13 May 93 18:29:17 GMT
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I haven't been paying much attention to the advent of IDE controllers
over the last few years, and would like to know a few things.

	1) Is it true that IDE controllers/drives appear like the
	   original ST506 drives on ISA bus systems?

	2) What about software compatibility with IDE controllers?
	   Specifically do 386BSD and Linux work with IDE controllers?

	3) Can you intermix IDE with SCSI?  meaning can you have an
	   IDE drive, and a SCSI board, with both drive and other 
	   scsi peripherls?  How abut under Linux or 386BSD?


And, just another point, what about IDE or SCSI controllers
and the VESA Local bus?

If these questions are in a FAQ, please let me know, I've looked
in all of the FAQ's here and couldn't find the answers, which
means they may have been expired, or lost.

	Thanks...

		... Stu ...
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Stu Donaldson                   "Can't you understand what I'm saying?" 
stu@mav.com                     "What happened?  Did you Fail Telepathy?"