Re: Connect SCSI prph's to G3 IDE drive?

[rbl@hal.EPBI.CWRU.Edu (Robin B. Lake)]

Kreme said:
> On 8/8/98 at 12:26 PM -0700, S. McStravick said to Kreme and others:
> > I am considering buying a desktop G3 with an IDE drive and
> > internal Zip. I have several postscript printers and a
> > scanner to attach to it. I have three questions:
> >
> > 1. I'm a little confused about these IDE drives. I hear they
> > are generally slower, but the G3 IDE is still faster than my
> > current 100mhz 7500 SCSI drive. Is that true?
> 
> I doubt if you will find the G3 IDE to be faster in normal use that your
> SCSI drive.
> 
> > 2. Also, may I attach my 1 SCSI cable scanner to the IDE
> > without problems?
> 
> No.  You can't connect a SCSI device to an IDE bus.  You seem to be
> confused about what exactly is going on.  Any Mac (with the exception of
> the upcoming iMac) has a SCSI bus.  Most newer Macs also have an IDE bus.
> And never the twain shall meet.  These are completely independent of each
> other.  Your SCSI devices have nothing to do with your IDE drive.  You can
> take out the IDE drive(s) in your G3 Mac and it will function just fine (if
> not a tad bit faster).
> 

My desktop G3 came with a SCSI port on the back side.  I just got an
adapter cable from the squarish port to a classic Centronics "D" connector
and plugged in a SCSI hard drive.  This is a 233 MHz G3.

> > 3. May I Appletalk or Ethernet (?) my current 7500 SCSI Mac
> > to the G3 IDE so they can share the same printers and/or
> > access each other's drives? I will have two printers
> > connected via the G3 printer port to a Belkin switch box.
> 
> They're Macs.  They were built to network.  Of course.  It maight take some
> work, depending on the printers, but it can be done.
> 
> --

You can indeed Appletalk and Ethernet your 7500 and G3.  This has absolutely
nothing to do with the hard drive bus architecture.  I share printers
all day long and network to a pair of UNIX workstations, a Quadra 900,
a Mac 6100/66, and a Pentium WindowsNT.  In addition, I run MacTen UNIX
on all the Macs and VirtualPC running Windows95 on the G3, right along
with the other two (MacOS and MachTen) operating systems.  The only glitch
is that when VirtualPC is running PPP, the Mac OS can't run or use
PPP.

Cheers,
Rob Lake
Environmental Modeling Inc.
rbl@po.cwru.edu

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