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IDE vs. EIDE vs. SCSI
Name: remedy7 Date: February 17, 2001 at 14:08:09 Pacific
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Help!!! I just bought a computer with 2 IDE ports and I'd like to add a CD-RW. What is the difference between IDE, EIDE, and SCSI? Basically, am I limited to buying an IDE drive for this system?
Name: BuggeralL Date: February 17, 2001 at 14:46:20 Pacific
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i'd recommend you stick to IDE it's the easiest to work with :)
EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics IDE Integrated Drive Electronics SCSI Small Computer System Interface aka (System Can't See It :)
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Response Number 2
Name: Date: February 17, 2001 at 15:32:26 Pacific
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I agree! Stick with IDE. Scsi is much more expensive and only needed by power users.
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Response Number 3
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: February 17, 2001 at 15:42:56 Pacific
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Originally IDE was limited to 1024 cylinders on the hard drive. EIDE, among other things, removed that limitation. Nowadays IDE and EIDE mean the same thing. Unless your computer has an on-board SCSI connector or card avoid it.
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Response Number 4
Name: doug Date: February 17, 2001 at 22:37:52 Pacific
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ok - here's the scoop-- if your computer is new - yo have EIDE which supports HD's over 2 gig's ( the Old computers had IDE - supporting up to 2 gig drives and most mfg's continue to use the terms IDE but really mean EIDE -- now SCSI - if you are going to copy CD's whether Audio or Data (i.e. games) you REQUIRE scsi as EIDE(IDE) CDR drives cannot support Diskcopying - SCSI is also much more reliable - If your not going to copy CD's then EIDE is fine - Adaptec's CDCOPIER which womes with their Adaptec 3.x & 4.x software does not support anything but scsi CDR/w drives
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Response Number 5
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: February 17, 2001 at 22:57:25 Pacific
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Ignore Doug's "scoop". Adaptec's CDcopier works just fine on my IDE burner. I copy cd to cd (from a second IDE cd rom) and music. You don't need SCSI to do any of that.
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Response Number 6
Name: AZZ1 Date: February 18, 2001 at 07:44:38 Pacific
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DAVENINCAPS is right. I use the same software with mt ide cdrw. no problem.
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Response Number 7
Name: chappie Date: February 18, 2001 at 09:23:48 Pacific
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the IDE cd-rom and IDE burners will now do every thing that SCSI can do - and with the price difference - go with IDE. The main advantage of scsi used to be that they were capable of higher data transfer rates, so you had fewer buffer under-runs
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Response Number 8
Name: ajay Date: February 20, 2001 at 23:28:51 Pacific
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go daveincaps, doug's statement is completely false
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