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In article <815529125snx@holly.demon.co.uk>
           mcr@holly.demon.co.uk "Mark Rogers" writes:

>
>Advice on the first two (SCSI and EZ135) appreciated (the rest I know 
>anyway - see .sig :-)
>
>I know sod all about SCSI. Is there a FAQ somewhere I can get hold of to 
>explain it all to me? I know there are all sorts of variations on the 
>theme, but don't know how any of them affect me :-(
>
>As to the Syquest EZ135 - I'm looking at that instead of the Iomega ZIP 
>mainly on the grounds of availability. I understand that it's a faster 
>device, with slightly cheaper media, but that the media is less tolerant 
>(that's possibly an understatement, from what I've heard) to being 
>dropped? Given that one of the uses for the drive will be backups, are 
>they really that bad? 
>
>Given that my attempts at backups so far have been confined to floppies 
>and tape (two tapes, one fails to read back the second I need it, so all 
>confidence in tape lost), the EZ135 *has* to be a vast improvement, yes?
>
>I need to share the EZ135 between two PC's - one is a 486DX4-100 with 
>PCI, the other a 486SX33 with ISA only. My alternative to SCSI would be 
>to add EIDE cards to both (both machines currently support two drives; 
>the SX33 has two drives whereas the DX4-100 has one but is likely to 
>need another adding, but also has an EIDE CD-ROM on a second IDE 
>provided via the sound card) and put an EZ135 in each machine - given the 
>price of the drive and some SCSI interfaces that might not be a bad idea.
>
>Any thoughts?

Personally I'd go for a SCSI solution.

This is a prejudice steming from SCSI on the whole just working fine and
IDE having quirks that are really out to get you like small drives, bad
workarounds, crap drivers, different interface specs, 32 bit not working
with interesting configurations...

If you put EIDE in the machines, will those cards have BIOSs ?
( Will you need BIOS support or use them for HD access ? )

Will those BIOSs deal with non HD devices ( beware Promise ! ).

Will those interfaces give you 32 bit access under windows ?

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John Beardmore