re help adding a scsi drive can it coexist with an ide in article apr oracle us oracle com ebosco us oracle com eric bosco writes i dont think you can mix the two types of drive unless you have one of the scsi ide cards that is available you will have to turn your ide off is this true i was under the impression that people on the net had both scsi and ide working together i have had a scsi and ide drive working together for some years now scsi is supposedly pretty transparent to other types of drives esdi rll ide etc but oftentimes you need to get the correct drivers to get it to work with odd environments for information purposes i had st card st n drive and a maxtor a drive with generic ide controller running together i have also had the same scsi setup work in combination with a rll drive the st drive
