Scsi with eide

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A dude gave me a new 20 gig Seagate scsi drive, I still have to pick up a PCI scsi card to use it. Will it be compatible with the drive I have in there now, or cause problems?
Athlon 1800+
40 gig eide
 
I wouldn't put that in my recording PC. You'll be clogging the pci bus with disk traffic. It's not that the pci bus doesn't have the bandwidth, it's more the latency of the scsi card hogging the bus for longer than it should.

If the PC is not for recording, it will be fine
 
I can't say I've tried it in a recording computer, but I've done in on other computers and it has worked ok.
A word of caution, though make sure you read up on SCSI and to set it up before you do anything.
I have also dealt with so many SCSI issues and incompatabilities at work, that I would rather suck on a rusted nail, than putting a SCSI on my home computer.
Now, if you had bought a computer that came ready out of the box with a SCSI hard drive. I'd say go for it.

Now I know, that other people will chime in and tell you go for it. Don't be afraid, just do it man. It's as easy as pie. A blind monkey, with three teeth, and his sister as his mother could do it.

I tell you read up on SCSI setup, read up on SCSI controller setup, and get a good buddy who had done it (like the one you gave you the scsi) to help you out. Also lots of beer, and a punching bag would help too. :D

My two cents.
 
Thing is, what is a 20G drive going to do for you? For the price of even the most simple controller you could have a larger ide drive.

I do love my scsi setup, but the prices they are asking these days are absurd.
 
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