[Steve Rosenthal]

Keysmia,

Gary's situation was worse than I've experienced or heard of, but it does illustrate the potential problems with using adaptation to go from connector type to connector type or from bus width to bus width. His advice to go with a supported SCSI card is certainly worth taking to heart.

As to your question about 10k versus 7200 RPM: It depends on what you're doing. 10k drives can give you a performance edge when dealing with high track counts and dense edits, but 7200 RPM drives aren't that far behind. With the IBMs, I recommend the 10k. With Seagate, I think you're fine with either 10k or 7200.

Hope this helps.

--Steve Rosenthal, Digidesign ETS

[This message has been edited by Steve Rosenthal (edited May 01, 2000).]