Hi Doug,<br>Here's the scenario. I have an older Sawtooth, it's a 450 with 2 - 18gig Seagate hard drives and they are old and starting to fail. <br>I have a new 80gig ATA/IDE drive that I'd like to install inplace of the SCSi drives but not sure how to go about it. I don't want the SCSI card or drives in my system any longer since I don't fully trust them.
<br>I'd feel secure with a new drive.<br>Any ideas how to achieve this? Any documentation that you know of?<br><br>thanks for your help and thoughts.<br><br>Jim<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/6/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Doug McNutt</b> <<a href="mailto:douglist@macnauchtan.com">douglist@macnauchtan.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At 16:19 -0700 10/6/07, Jim S wrote:<br>> I was wondering if anyone would know how to swap out a SCSI hard drive with an IDE. The issue is that the connector and ribbon is different for a SCSI drive than it is for a IDE drive. At the moment there is a SCSI card that the 2 internal Hard drives are connected to.
<br>>How do I change the ribbon/connectors and where, so that I can install the new IDE drive?<br><br>It's probably impossible to make that happen with a wiring change.<br><br>But I'm a bit confused. My Sawtooth G4 may be different from yours. With that in mind. . .
<br><br>ATA (IDE was an older version that made the processor do the work) and SCSI have very different logic protocols that require different software and probably hardware. ATA is limited to 2 drives on a bus, SCSI supports 7.
<br><br>The Sawtooth requires ATA for its internal busses each of which can support two drives. You can replace the Zip drive with an ATA disk but it's a bit of screwdriver work. You can have two ATA drives on the other bus.
<br><br>SCSI just isn't there but you probably can find a PCI card that supports SCSI drives if you don't have all of the slots used up driving monitors as I do.<br><br>You can also find SCSI to Firewire boxes that might well be easier than finding a PCI card.
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