[geeks] IDE on an AXi ?

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Sep 26 16:59:59 CDT 2002


On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:54:53PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> I've got an AXi machine.. Anybody know of a way to use *IDE* drives in this
> thing?
> 
> I need cheap capacity (IDE) over performance (SCSI).  Right now I've got a
> dual-channel PCI diff. controller and a D1000 hanging off it, but what I
> realaly need to do is replace all that with one large IDE drive..
> 
> Suggestionsn?

They make SCSI-IDE converters, but I suspect they wipe out the cheap
angle.

Two companies to look at are Medea and i-Raid, if you think it would
really be any better.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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