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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!europa.clark.net!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!behrensm From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI & EIDE mix? Date: 10 Jun 1997 13:05:58 GMT Organization: Grand Valley State University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5njjfm$dnh@news.gvsu.edu> References: <jaime-ya02408000R1006970052100001@news.wizvax.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: river.it.gvsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42684 Jaime Kikpole (jaime@wizvax.net) wrote: : 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. No problem at all. -- Matt Behrens Zigg Computer Services zigg@iserv.net http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/