SCSI and IDE?

It is possible, but if your system does not have an IDE controller, you will have to purchase one to use an IDE hard drive. The SCSI system uses a totally different way of communicating that IDE does. If you already have SCSI, I would really stick with it. The prices have dropped dramatically, I've seen several drives, around 18GB or so, going for 100 dollars. It is higher than IDE, but you can't beat the reliability and performance of them. I've got two 10 year old 500MB SCSI drives and they outperform my newest IDE drive.

Unfortunately you cannot "slave" an IDE drive to a SCSI drive. However you can still run both on the same machine.

You would simply plug the IDE cable for your new drive into the IDE 0 port on your motherboard. Then, when you reboot, you will need to go into your BIOS (usually by pressing the delete button) and tell the BIOS which drive contains your primary boot partition. You will also want to make sure that the BIOS is properly configuring your new IDE drive.

If your primary OS is on your SCSI drive, indicate that you want to boot from SCSI in the BIOS so it will boot properly. If you do not currently have an operating system on either drive, you can boot from floppy and install one.

Hope this is helpful. Let me know if you have any other questions. I'd be happy to assist you.

--Thokk

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