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To: K. M. Strickler who wrote (47957)	2/17/1998 5:09:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ken - Re: ??430 chipset (Triton I think )and while I like the board OK, in order to increase the throughput by going to a SCSI controller " Check your motherboard/manual to see if the chip set is a 430TX which supports UltraDMA of 33.3 MHz speed EIDE/ATA drives. If so, you can get improved disk access speed by making sure you have an UltraDMA EIDE/ATA drive - maybe not quite up to SCSI-II speeds, but pretty fast just the same - and no new slots would be required. If your chip set is older and does not support the UltraDMA feature, and your heart is set on a SCSI drive, call ADAPTEC. One other possibility is to find a combo Modem/Soundlblaster card. This is a bit dicey - I have an MWAVE modem in an older machine and it does modem/sound/fax/voicemail etc. - made by Best Data. It is no longer made or supported (that't my tough luck). But - IBM - the MWAVE chip maker - sold their own version - maybe they still do, and if you could get one of those, you could save a slot freeing one up for your SCSI card. Or - a new MB with the 430TX chip set and/or more slots may be a cheaper solution. Good luck trying to cram all that stuff in. Paul