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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (660)	5/16/1998 4:50:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

SCSI cards and Scanners If I get a scanner with the SCSI card is that not as good as getting my own SCSI card separately(or would they both be the same). Am I looking at some compatibility problems? There should be no difference between the two cards as far as the scanner is concerned. If you want to add SCSI components (DVD, CDROM, CR, CDRW, Zip, LS120, MO, harddrive) they will probably not work on the SCSI card supplied with your scanner. If you wanted to add a SCSI card later on you would still be able to do so. You would be able to add the scanner to the new SCSI card or leave it on its own SCSI card. In other words you can have several SCSI cards in the same machine. This would depend on the number of expansion slots you have in your machine. Does the HD need to be made for a SCSI setup? No. As long as you have room on your IDE controller you can add your new IDE harddrive as a secondary drive. There is no need to look at SCSI drives unless you are looking for a marginal performance increase or you are running out of expansion slots. Zeuspaul