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From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir)
Subject: Re: Some HD Questions
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 04:12:34 GMT

In article <1991Jun24.113004.20327@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> grund@pyrite.som.cwru.edu (Victor Grund) writes:
>(Assuming DOS (Windows) and maybe OS/2 2.0 later on...)
>1) Can a secondary SCSI controller co-exist with an ESDI controller?
>2) Can a secondary SCSI or ESDI controller work with an IDE
>   controller?
Probably (I think) :-)

>3) Should I decide to run some sort of 386 unix, do your answers
>   change?

>My consideration of a Gateway 2000 system has me asking these
>questions.  I anticipate initial HD space requirements in the 400 MB
>range, and would like to leave my options open for future expansion.
>SCSI appeals to me because of its versatility, but Gateway does not
>offer SCSI configurations.

Bearing all of the above in mind, I would say that your best bet is to go SCSI.
SCSI is particularly suited to large drives, more so than IDE, because you will
find that most backup devices are SCSI.  You will probably need certain drivers
especially for UNIX and OS/2, etc.  You will likely even need them for MSDOS.

Soon, I expect a lot of SCSI mass-storage device, giant floppies, etc.  I would
definitely go with SCSI if I were getting such a large drive.  Bear in mind
that most users of large drives are running operating systems such as UNIX,
which are almost exclusively SCSI these days....

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