From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI and intermixing the two. Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 02:54:04 GMT
In article <1993May13.182917.23510@mav.com> stu@mav.com writes:
>I haven't been paying much attention to the advent of IDE controllers
>over the last few years, and would like to know a few things.
>
> 1) Is it true that IDE controllers/drives appear like the
> original ST506 drives on ISA bus systems?
Yes.
> 2) What about software compatibility with IDE controllers?
> Specifically do 386BSD and Linux work with IDE controllers?
Yes.
> 3) Can you intermix IDE with SCSI? meaning can you have an
> IDE drive, and a SCSI board, with both drive and other
> scsi peripherls? How abut under Linux or 386BSD?
Yes and yes.
>
>
>And, just another point, what about IDE or SCSI controllers
>and the VESA Local bus?
IDE localbus controllers work just like ISA bus IDE controllers.
Local bus SCSI controllers work if they are compatable with a
supported non-local bus board, and we have explicit support for
the Ultrastor 34F VESA local bus SCSI.
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