Yeah. It has to do with our "media server", holding ripped music and various movies and TV shows *cough* obtained from a number of sources so that they can be accessed from any computer in the house. A couple of weeks ago it quit working, refusing to find any bootable partition on startup. A new set of IDE ribbon cables seemed to fix the problem, but yesterday it crapped out again. Probably the motherboard IDE controller has failed.

I remember messing with SCSI back when I was a Mac fanatic and every Mac had built-in SCSI. It was a pain sometimes, especially with long chains, and various strange things would happen. But I never had too much trouble with it and definitely would prefer it to SCSI. That is out of the question here because it would mean having to buy several hundred dollars worth of new drives.