From: Dirk Munk [munk@home.nl]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:28 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: IDE controller in Alphaserver 4100????

The DQ driver does not support just any IDE controller. For instance in 
my PWS500au there is a IDE controller, but VMS does not support it, not 
even for the CD-Rom. That makes it very unlikely that you can get such a 
setup running.

However there is a SCSI -> IDE converter that I've tested. It will let 
you connect any type of IDE drive to a SCSI UW bus. It is the Acard 
AEC-7720UW, you can find it on http://www.acard.com . I'm going to use 
it with a Western Digital 800JB (80GB) drive in my PWS. I did the 
initial test with another IDE drive, and the whole thing reacted just 
like a SCSI drive. Even the drive type is visible with show device DK.  
The only problem is that the adapter is higher then the drive, and that 
means I can only use it on the top drive. On the lower drive it would 
block the connector for the upper drive.

rifepe@langran.iem.csic.espam wrote:

>I have and alphaserver 4100, I will need to add an online file storage
>as cheap as posible to keep it running.
>I would like to know if anyone has any experiencies with PCI IDE controlers.
>An it has been any good, for dicusions of the DS alphaserver seems that 
>most of the IDE disk would work with the DQDRIVER.
>
>Thanks
>
>Ricardo
>