SCSI to IDE device bridges

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Jan 7 11:11:50 PST 2004


In the last episode (Jan 07), Derek Marcotte said:
> I've checked the H/W compatibiltity list for 4.9 for any SCSI to IDE
> bridges (IDE drive to SCSI bus), and I don't see any mention of these
> type of devices.  I would think that they would be supported though,
> because they should just appear as HDDs.  I plan on at least to try
> one out, regardless of "tainting" the ever pure SCSI bus with IDE
> devices.  A manufacturer and model number that I'm looking is:

I think it should "just work".  The picture has a standard SCSI
adapter, so it should look like a regular disk to your SCSI card.  I
wouldn't expect it to be in the compatibility list any more than I
would expect to see a list of supported SCSI drives :)

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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