Hard Drives
A SCSI hard drive is set-up just like any other drive. Depending on your BIOS settings, you can set the system to boot from the SCSI drive, or from an IDE drive. There is no problem in using a mixed drive setup. Seagate, IBM and Quantum are all well known for their SCSI drives.
CD-ROMs and CD Burners
A great number of manufacturers offer SCSI burners (CD-R or CD-RW), but just plain CD players are harder to come by. I use Plextor for both my CD and CD-R, but there are plenty of others out there.
Scanners
Any good high-end scanner will be a SCSI scanner. Check around on the web to see what kind of results people are getting with the model you have in mind. I use Microtek and you can read my opinion in the hardware reviews.
Other devices
Zip Drives, LS120s, Jaz Drives and many other devices of this type are available
in the SCSI interface. You can add any SCSI device into your chain as long as
you have not exceeded the number of devices for your card. These will not be
U2W, so if you are using U2W hard drives, attach these to the other internal
controller of your SCSI card.
Page 1: Introduction to SCSI
Page 2: This page: Choosing SCSI devices
Page 3: Setting up a SCSI chain
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