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From: salem@hauk.hsr.no (Salem, Lazaro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: SCASI or IDE HD?
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 13:12:57 GMT
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
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Hi, 

I have a bought a PC-clone,i486/DX33 Mhz, with 16Mb RAM (60 ns), 256Kb cache,
ISA bus + 2 VL bus on board with 256 Kb cache, 2 FDD (3,5/1.4Mb & 5.25/1.2Mb), 
-> SCASI Adapter Card (ADAPTEC 1542CF), 
-> 2 IDE HD controllers 

(+ ATI Ultra Graphic card w/1 Mb VRAM and 256 Kb VEGA + CD-rom SONY, 
 + Sounblaster Pro + ...). 

But.. I haven't  buy the Hard Disk yet and I was considering buying 
a Quantum 420Mb.  

I am not sure about the convenience or not of buying a SCASI or an IDE disk.
I can get any of them at the same price (almost), and since I have both 
IDE and SCASI controllers I wonder what other considerations shoud I take to 
make my mind.

As far as I understood (was told) there would not be any sensible difference
for a one or two HD stations ("the botleneck is the bus speed" they said).

I plan to have both BSD386 (UNIX) (on the main partition) and 
a secondary DOS partition.

Any suggestion?

Thanks, 
Lazaro
P.S. Preferably e-mail directly to my account, to avoid noise in the net.