On 11/25/05 12:23 pm mwizard99{at}comcast.net tossed the following 
ingredients into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

>  >>My interest in SCSI is because my system is all SCSI.  I have
never had an
>  >>IDE device in this sytem.
>  >>
>  >>I'm leary about mixing SCSI and IDE devices.  The IDE DVD Writer will
>  >>compete with a CDROM and CDRW SCSI devices.
>  >>
>  >Why?
> 
> Because no one that I know of ever publishes a test where they have a
> primary scsi system with IDE drives attached to it.  Mostly its an all IDE
> system, or and IDE system with a SCSI hanging some secondary device(s).
> The disk subsystem of practically any OS might have some hidden gems to be
> discovered in such rare cases.  I'm not much of a risk-taker with my
> system stability.
> 
>  >>  But only in the sense that
>  >>they all have to work together.  And I might use all of them
through out
>  >>my day.
>  >>
>  >> 
>  >>
>  >That's what I am doing on one of my systems.
> 
> It's good to hear that some systems are out there working just fine.  I
> needed to hear that so that I can move to a warmer and fuzzier place.
> 
>  >>The ACARD idea allows me to keep all SCSI drivers.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>Would introducing the IDE also require some of DANI's drivers
to make this
>  >>all work?  (W4 FP17)
>  >>
>  >> 
>  >>
>  >Of course it would.
> 
> This suggests that the IBM drivers are not adequate to the task.  Anyone
> care to elaborate why not? (Dani:  I'm glad to know that you have worked
> hard on these drivers.  And I'm sure that I'm one among many who feel that
> way. Great job!)
> 
>  >>Anyone having hard experience with such a setup, would be encouraged to
>  >>chime in and share their experiences.
>  >> 
>  >>
>  >The scsi-ide mixt gives only one problem: the boot up from a CD usually
>  >gets hosed if both systems are present.  The only working solution
>  >hitherto I've found is prior to the boot to detach one of the systems (or
>  >scsi, or ide).
> 
> Anyone else experiencing this CD boot problem?  I suppose that I don't
> boot too many CD's in this system.  And perhaps I can live with this
> glitch.

My main computer has three SCSI hard disks, a SCSI CD-ROM drive and an 
IDE DVD burner (only because I couldn't find a SCSI one).

It boots from whichever optical drive has a bootable CD in it, or from 
the hd if there's no bootable CD. eCS 1.1 and 1.2 have installed on it 
just fine (1.0 needed a typo in the CONFIG.SYS file fixed after 
completion of phase 1).

-=-
Alan


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