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In <67jIxNAlBSD3Ew5+@tangon.demon.co.uk>,
	Woody <woody@tangon.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> One question: *why* the push push push for SCSI?  I know SCSI is

If you only have one machine, you may be likely to either want to use it while
you're writing. With a SCSI writer, you have extra breathing space on the
performance side (given a decent SCSI card)

> in preference to IDE?  I have IDE HDD and CDRom - and I can't afford to
> start swapping them out for SCSI if I should have co-existence problems.

You shouldn't have. My machines here are SCSI HD/SCSI CD, 2x IDE HD/SCSI
CD/SCSI writer and my work machine is SCSI HD/IDE CD, I've never seen a
problem due to those combinations.
 
> It just means I've got to put yet another card in my machine and a whole
> load of new drivers to load.  Why should I bother?  Speed is not vital
> to me - I'm quite happy to set it off copying and walk away for an hour
> or two, or is that being to simplistic?

Nope, if you're happy to do that then an IDE writer, and possibly a slow
one will suit you. The problem with trying to advise on these things is
that you can never have too much information about the situation, and often
get very little, so you end up trying to base on things you aren't sure
about, so end up being lazy and suggesting what you did ;-)

Paul