SCSI and IDE RAID Compatable in the same system?

[tweeve2002]

ok my best friend is having a fit of insanity, he just bought a moterboad that has on-board IDE RAID and wanted to do that, but he also has a SCSI card and SCSI HDD and want to RAID those too. Besides having an ULTRA long BIOS Start-up :Q. They should work right?

MotherBoard - Abit TH7-RAID Motherboard - Socket 423 Intel 850 Chipset
CPU - 1.3 GHz
RAM - 265MB RDRAM 600Mhz
HDD - some SCSI, some IDE, not sure on the sizes or types
Video - dont know yet
Sound - SB 16 PCI
Windows 98

 

[JBT]

they should

 

[MDE]

Shouldn't be a problem at all.

 

[tweeve2002]

thanks thats what i thought but i was just making sure.

 

[beatle]

Maybe I'm just reading this wrong, but just to clarify:

He wants to have two separate arrays, one of scsi disks and one of ide disks? If so, that's possible. It's not possible to have an array (in hardware) with two different interfaces.

 

[OverVolt]

Make sure he uses the terminators correctly, and ick at the P4 1.3G Willamette, what was he thinking when he bought that thing!

And i thought the I850 had 800Mhz RD-RAM but i can't remember the oldie hardware

 

[tweeve2002]

yea he is going to have two seprate arrays, one is SCSI and one is ID, he already has the SCSI Drives and Card it is comming out of an old system, and when he get the money he is going to build a IDE RAID.

 

[Ionizer86]

Side point, I guess there's tons of more cost-efficient upgrades that can be done before having some uber expensive scsi drives and raid. Wilamette 1.3? PC600 RDRAM? SB16? (well, upgrading that won't make the rig faster...) Win98? Oh well, each their own.

 

[tweeve2002]

this is a BIG upgrade for him, he has a P2 266, and the SCSI Drives are from that system. he just dosnt have the money for a new computer as it is the PSU, CPU, sound, RAM, and Video card (geForce 2 MX 400) were all just given to him. The Motherboad he found on sale for $15 and we found a $16 case on newegg all in all he build a new computer for just over $50

 

[sechs]

I run a basic RAID 1 with the onboard and have an add-in SCSI card for my main drives. The only issue is that only one controller BIOS can be active and have INT13 access and be bootable.

 

[Steven the Leech]

Originally posted by: tweeve2002
this is a BIG upgrade for him, he has a P2 266, and the SCSI Drives are from that system. he just dosnt have the money for a new computer as it is the PSU, CPU, sound, RAM, and Video card (geForce 2 MX 400) were all just given to him. The Motherboad he found on sale for $15 and we found a $16 case on newegg all in all he build a new computer for just over $50

Sounds like a winner, and ill bet he will definitely appreciate the new setup. May not squeal the tires but ill bet it will be adequate, especially for that price.