gamehead200 Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 Guys, is it possible for an IDE CD-RW to be connected to a SCSI card? Or would it not work at all?
Crispy Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 Its not posible! ... IDE and SCSI are two totally diferent things! ... I dunno if there are any adapters out there that convert betwen IDE and SCSI, but I would think that its both slow and expensive!
gamehead200 Posted January 3, 2003 Author Posted January 3, 2003 Will this IDE card: http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetai...id=&newdeptid=1Work with this CD-RW: http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetai...id=&newdeptid=1
zivan56 Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 It should probably work but that cd writer is so overpriced!You could get a LiteOn 52x24x52x for $99 CAD.
gamehead200 Posted January 3, 2003 Author Posted January 3, 2003 That price is for the online store...I saw it in-store for $99.99 CAN!
Rick Posted January 4, 2003 Posted January 4, 2003 In the US these drives go on sale for like $50 AR. Find a coupons & deals site for Canada before making a purchase. See xpbargains.com for an example of what I mean.Rick
FthrJACK Posted January 4, 2003 Posted January 4, 2003 SCSI will slow down your boot time.however its excellent if you use it in a file server, you can connect 8 devices to each cable. Problem is the drives cost an absolute fortune.SCSI is also VERY fast. but like i said.. it costs a bomb and if you turn your pc of a lot you will regret it.i dont think they do SCSI drives faster than 12X burn either. as the price is out of the roof.
Doggie Posted January 4, 2003 Posted January 4, 2003 well.. SCSI i believe is better cause its plain simple digital and IDE has to convert analog to digital, etc etc
gamehead200 Posted January 4, 2003 Author Posted January 4, 2003 So if I were to get the IDE card and the burner, I would be able to not just only have a slot for the burner, but three extra slots for HDs, Burners, etc. As if I were to go w/ a SCSI burner, I wouldn't have a fast burning speed as the IDE one...Is this making any sense?
LS_Dragons Posted January 5, 2003 Posted January 5, 2003 The SCSI connector will get you TONS of very fast hard drive / CD Burner / DVD Burner connections - but as FthrJACK said, it will slow your boot time considerably - all the SCSI devices must identify and enumerate during boot. The PCI card will get you 2 more IDE connections which should handle 2 devices each - hard drives, CD or DVD burner - in any combination. Before going further - make sure your BIOS can handle all the additional devices you are planning - probably cannot boot to the "PCI" IDE devices - but maybe. Also - make sure you have available spots to mount the drives you will be adding.LS_Dragons
gamehead200 Posted January 5, 2003 Author Posted January 5, 2003 I have a Tekram SCSI Card, and it doesn't slow down my boot time...That PCI card that I want to buy supports 4 extra devices, I think...
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