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How do I set up a SCSI system?

since I was a noob once, and people ignored my posts at the beginning as well, I will try to answer you 🙂

Scsi hard drives come in size denominations of 9 gig, 18 gig, 36 gig, etc. Generally you need a controller card that fits in a pci slot, attaching cable ( including a device called a terminator) and a scsi drive.
The two main manufacturers of Scsi adapter cards are Adaptec, and Tekram. Both work well. When purchasing a card for the first time , be sure to buy a retail card" it'll include all the cables and terminator.
There are a bunch of drive manufacturers, so it's a combo of personal taste, track record, and how much you want to spend.
Then there's the speed factor. With speed comes heat. 7K, 10K, and now 15K rpm drives are available. I have been running 10K IBM drives for about a year and a half: plenty fast for me.
Card is installed in the board with nothing hooked up to it. Make sure it's recognized by Windows. Install drivers for the board. Shut down, hook up HD and cables. Set jumpers on back of drive. Reboot, make sure scsi card sees the new hard drive. Run fdisk to make partitions and format- you're good to go 🙂


Resinboy
 
I am thinking of getting a SCSI hdd setup too.

is it possible to ghost an IDE drive off the mobo's controller onto a SCSI drive off the controller card?

I could live with a format, but since my system doesn't need one, I'd like to avoid that right now.

hmm!
 
Just 1 drive (IDE) to 1 drive (SCSI)

over the mobo's controller, to the U160 SCSI controller.

How other than ghost?

Partition magic in Windows? would that work?
 
http://scsi.radified.com
http://www.storagereview.com

check out the first one, great guide, and storagereview.com is probably the best storage related site there is, good luck ..

the reason its so expensive, well you pay a premium for scsi, it basically has its own processor, as to keep ur cpu utilization down .. all this you will find in those links, including the SCSI FAQ which was posted earlier .. good luck ..
-neural
 
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