Re: SCSI and IDE in the same computer

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From: Simon Ho
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 00:00

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On Mon, 22 May 1995, Adrian Vesnaver wrote:

> I currently have a 210mb IDE HDD in my PC and I'm intending to upgrade
> it to a 1GB SCSI, and install OS/2 Warp. Would it be best to leave my
> IDE drive in the system or get rid of it all together? Are there any
> problems associated with having both types of drives? Thanks in advance
> for any help.

A friend had a 1 GB Micropolis running off a SCSI adapter with a 120MB 
IDE and had no problems.  He had a Adaptec 1540 ( I think) which can not 
be used to boot from. 

Alternatively, sell the drive and put the money towards a good SCSI card 
as OS/2 multitasking would just love it.

Rgds

Simon

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Date: 1995/05/23
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