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IDE/ATAPI to SCSI Converters Reviewed

Posted by michael on from the duct-tape dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Seems that someone has finally come out with IDE/ATAPI to SCSI converters to bridge the gap between the high-cost SCSI world and the low-cost IDE world. Addonics is the company and LinuxHardware.org has a full review of these two devices. The review does a good job of laying out installation and performance. These are just what I've been looking for and although a little pricey, they seem to do the job."

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  1. Some links by bahwi · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those not familiar, or trying to respond to others in this forum and don't know what to say: =)

    IDE vs. SCSI article at PcMech.

    SCSI & IDE Overview Good, informative, classroom materials for a university.

    IDE to SCSI Adaptor Review of the ACard ARS-2000FW

    ACARD Tech. - Makes SCSI to IDE converters.

  2. Now you notice? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    These things have been around for years! I've had them for 2.5" SCSI notebooks in SparcBooks. There are pleny of SCSI-IDE bridges over at dirtcheap drives for like $50-$70 depending on whether you want wide or narrow scsi. $100 is too much.

    And I've used these to hook up a bunch of 160GB IDE drives together to make a nice big huge raid array. They're great - only if you hook'em up to big drives where SCSI would be too expensive or to hook up DVD or CDRW's to Scsi only machines such as SUNs.

  3. Re:ISA Adapters by nsample · · Score: 4, Informative


    It's a nice idea, but the main reason that ISA-to-PCI is not a solution out there already is a simple one: physical contraints of the system. An ISA-to-PCI adapter would not fit in any standard chassis and still have enough room to mount the ISA card. The IDE-to-SCSI solution leverages the fact that there's room to move in a case; drives tend not to be tight fits, unlike cards.


    That being said, if you find a good one someday, let me know! I have more ISA data acquisition cards in the lab than I can shake a stick at, and they're not cheap.

  4. These are not new. Here are some others. by sparkeyjames · · Score: 4, Informative

    These products are NOT new others have been making them for years.
    Here is one that mounts UNDER a low profile (aren't most of them like this?) ide
    drive making it about the same height as an atapi cdrom drive.
    http://www.acard.com/eng/product/scside/ars-2000fw .html or this one
    http://www.acard.com/eng/product/scside/aec-7720uw .html this one looks alot like the one addonics is selling doesn't it?
    Just because some company gets a write up on something at linuxhardware.org
    does not make it new or news.

    sparkeyjames
    If sense were common everyone would have it!