If you stay with IDE, you might (re)consider the Fasttrak, if your primary HDDs aren't SCSI. That way you can keep your primary and sec MB IDE channels free for CD mastering, etc.
I am stuck with IDE and SCSI for the forseeable future. I need SCSI because I am a hardware junky and I need IDE because it always works and the IDE harddrives are a bargain. FastTrack sounds good...I am careful with my PCI slots. Give us an update once you have had a chance to play. If I go for the TYAN S1836 DLUAN tyan.com with 6 PCI slots and the CA PC full tower calpc.com with 10 5 1/4 bays maybe I will have room for the FastTrack.
Is CD mastering from a SCSI source drive to an IDE burn drive an issue?
BTW, FWIW, it might be useful to have a sub-thread devoted to merchants. Lots of discussions seem to be involving them lately--shopping.com, pcnet, mushkin, etc. Feel free to ignore, too--what you really need are more thread burdens, I'm sure. :)
Done. Maybe it will help with the indexing issue.
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I did not realize that MB IDE channels with HDDs attached (but not CDs or other devices) apparantly need to be DISABLED in the bios in order for the fasttrak drives to be bootable.
Would formatting the HDD's on the IDE channels as extended only partitions cause the FastTrack to boot? I am considering formatting some drives with extended partitions only in a future design as it will help preserve drive letter integrity.
I'd like to go Plextor, but I don't want to wait too long, and AFAIK they haven't even been announced yet. I'm pretty surprised at the prices that buycomp is hitting on the new yamahas, compared to what older units are going for. Please let me know if you hear anything concrete about the Plextors soon.
The information I got was from a poster on Anand's (I think) boards who posted email received from Plextor. Plextor told us to watch their site for the announcement. When I went back to verify what I had read I could not find it again:(
BTW, a usenet poster indicated that the 8110i does NOT come with the disaster recovery software. I haven't seen this confirmed.
From the HP site
hp.com
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System Includes
HP SureStore CD-Writer Plus 8100i: Internal drive,
installation guide (CD); Adaptec DirectCD and Easy CD
Creator; HP Simple Trax and HP Disaster Recovery software;
IDE data cable; Audio cable; One blank HP CD-RW rewritable
disc and one blank HP CD-R recordable disc.
HP SureStore CD-Writer Plus 8110i: Internal drive,
installation guide (CD); Adaptec DirectCD and Easy CD
Creator; Corel Print House Magic; Jet Fax PaperMaster
Digital Now Photo Organizer; HP Simple Trax and HP Disaster
Recovery software; IDE data cable; Audio cable; One blank HP
CD-RW rewritable disc and one blank HP CD-R recordable
disc.
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