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Subject: Upgrade to my machine
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 09:00:06 +0100
From: "John Richards" <john@zyqad.co.uk>
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Hello all,

I'm going to upgrade my home machine, 486DX33 VLB 8MB, 250&210 MB IDE, from
1.0.5.1R to the 2.0.5R.  At the same time I'd like to start migrating the system
to SCSI.  This may involve buying a CDROM drive and maybe a SCSI disk.

1.  Is it possible to have a mixed IDE & SCSI system?
2.  Any recommendations on SCSI adapter?  Buslogic looking favourite at the
moment on price #155.
3.  Will any SCSI CDROM drive work with any SCSI adapter or are certain
combinations better/worse than others?
4.  Will any SCSI disk drive work with any SCSI adapter?
5.  For 1GB disk would 2*500MB disks be preferable to 1*1GB?  Could then
configure 2 swap partitions.
6.  In a mixed IDE/SCSI system (assumes answer to 1 is yes) can the boot manager
handle booting from the SCSI drive if one of the IDEs is the default boot?

For 3 & 4 common sense says they should, experience hints otherwise.

I'll be using the system for lisp programming on the whole although... must
learn C++ sometime.

I'll upgrade the processor at a later date and put in more memory then.

Thanks for any help & advice.

John
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