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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:38726 comp.os.386bsd.questions:2417 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:2728 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!boulder!ophelia!drew From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI and intermixing the two. Message-ID: <1993May14.025404.12607@colorado.edu> Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet) Nntp-Posting-Host: ophelia.cs.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder References: <1993May13.182917.23510@mav.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 02:54:04 GMT Lines: 34 In article <1993May13.182917.23510@mav.com> stu@mav.com 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 and yes. > > >And, just another point, what about IDE or SCSI controllers >and the VESA Local bus? IDE localbus controllers work just like ISA bus IDE controllers. Local bus SCSI controllers work if they are compatable with a supported non-local bus board, and we have explicit support for the Ultrastor 34F VESA local bus SCSI. -- Boycott USL/Novell for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit. | Drew Eckhardt Condemn Colorado for Amendment Two. | drew@cs.Colorado.EDU Use Linux, the fast, flexible, and free 386 unix |