[mythtv-users] OT: Can IDE and SCSI mix?

[Ian Forde]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 23:37 -0600, Rob Greene wrote:
> I've been browsing eBay for potential backend machines. Older
> dual-processor machines are continuously put up for sale. Most of them
> also have SCSI drives... but the motherboard also supports IDE.
> 
> While browsing HP documentation I came across a note that stated that
> Linux only supports SATA or SCSI - not both at the same time. IIRC,
> the note was regarding RH9, so it may be out of date. I'll be using
> FC2 or FC3.
> 
> Is this an issue with Linux? Is this an issue with the older IDE and
> SCSI machines?
> 
> In particular, I was seeing the HP X4000 and XW6000 machines up for
> sale. I'd hate to actually win one and then find out I cannot re-use
> the SCSI drives with my IDE drives!!  I figured someone on this list
> would know...  (c:

Heh - that's some serious FUD being put out there by HP... my slave
backend as 1 IDE DVD-ROM, 3*IDE hard drives, and is directly connected
to a 12*36GB SCSI Sun Diskpack.  About 800GB in total and it works just
fine...

	-Ian