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.
My problems with SCSI could be related to the fact that I'm a strictly-PC guy, and every time I've messed with SCSI I've wound up wanting to poke my eye out with a fork. Passive-vs-active termination, some devices only happy with certain ID's, eleventy-billion and one flavors of SCSI, all of which are incompatible, pick your flavor of SCSI pass-through emulation out of this selection of incompatible software... yeah.
The upside in your case, provided you're not using a RAID array, everything should be hunky-dory with a $15 IDE expansion card or two.
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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.
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The upside in your case, provided you're not using a RAID array, everything should be hunky-dory with a $15 IDE expansion card or two.