SCSI HD's

[DollyDagger]

Hi,

I'm looking to get a 10400rpm scsi hard drive, but i dont have a scsi card and I dont really know where to start. i already have a 30gig IDE drive (5400rpm- now u know y i want a 10400rpm). A basic outline of how i could do this would be much appreciated. I'm looking to sell the 30gig and keep the scsi as my primary boot drive, is this a bad idea?

Also, how many drives can i connect to one scsi card? (ie a hard drive and a cdrw)

Thanks. .....blah blah.... best of my knowledge, etc. "always in the quest for knowledge, and glad i could help"
If im wrong, its not my fault!

 

[butchrecon]

You need to start with a controller for the SCSI HDD. You should be able to find one @ Best Buy, or any local shop. Once it is in place you can put (I believe, if I am wrong someone tell me) 7 devices on one internal SCSI chain. Starting at 0 for the HDD and 1 for the CDROM (If its SCSI)
Once you have the card in you should be set.

 

[DollyDagger]

Thanks. .....blah blah.... best of my knowledge, etc. "always in the quest for knowledge, and glad i could help"
If im wrong, its not my fault!

 

[edfair]

There will be other issues, but nothing you can't handle. And the extra cost. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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[rfeenie]

adaptec 19180 should be the card of choice. a decent cable is also a must but when i bought this type of card they supplied the proper cable with a terminator at the end, it was only sufficient for 3 devices on that chain though but i assume this is ambpe for you.

 

[htin11]

hi

get the scsi Adaptec A2940UW, it's like 70 dollars on sale at

http://www.anixontech.com,

i think i spell it right....it's on the clearance list.

it's a great scsi card...

type transfer rate
SCSI2 = 10 MB
ULTRA = 20 MB
ULTRA WIDE = 40 MB
ULTRA3

 

[chuckyts]

Go with any Adaptec card. Avoid the "no name" SCSI controllers. Why? Because a year or two from now when you need new drivers or add other devices, you'll find drivers for Adaptec - and probably not for the off-brands. A few $s saved today will be totally wasted next year when you have to pitch the off-brand card!

- Example - I recently added 2 18 GB UW3 drives to my NT server at home [duplexed] with 2 other non-UW3 drives on a 3-4 year old 2940UW PCI card. Had some unique cabling issues that were finally solved with a $18 Adaptec 50-68 pin adapter and upgraded drivers.

- There is theoretically a way to hang more than 7 SCSI devices on a single channel by using LUNs [Logical Unit Numbers - sort of a SCSI ID sub-addressing scheme]. But watch this - can have serious issues w. drivers, even Adaptec's!! Plan on no more than 6 devices on a single channel [the adapter uses one SCSI ID]. Up to 13 on a dual channel card.

- Remember, your disk R/W will speed up - but you're not improving your processing any! And because you typically don't R/W to multiple drives simultaneously on a workstation, you won't see the sort of throughput you're used to seeing on a server!