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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI & EIDE mix?
Date: 10 Jun 1997 15:12:10 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <jaime-ya02408000R1006970052100001@news.wizvax.net>,
jaime@wizvax.net (Jaime Kikpole) writes:
> I'm in the final stages of planning to build my FreeBSD box and
> something has come up that I can't answer. Due to my budget, I'm not sure
> if I can afford buying a SCSI controller right away. But I can afford the
> HD itself and already own a SCSI CD-ROM drive.
>
> Obviously, I'd like to use SCSI eventually. :) However, is it possible
> to use EIDE for now, buy a SCSI controller and HD in the future, and then
> use *both* the old EIDE hard drive and the SCSI devices at the same time?
> If so, I'll buy the EIDE hard drive for current use and expand into SCSI in
> the near future.
Yep, no problem. My home machine has one IDE disk, one IDE CD-ROM
and six SCSI disks.
> Thanks,
> Jaime
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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