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From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI and intermixing the two.
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References: <1993May13.182917.23510@mav.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 20:40:32 GMT
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In article <1993May13.182917.23510@mav.com>, stu@mav.com (Stu Donaldson) writes:
| 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?
yes
| 2) What about software compatibility with IDE controllers?
| Specifically do 386BSD and Linux work with IDE controllers?
yes
| 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?
yes with a caveat, you boot off the IDE drive. There are ways around
this, but unless you have a very good reason it's not worth fighting
with the issue.
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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; 518-387-6489
Look for a new corporate affiliation, coming to this space soon.