My Seagate ST-225 in my 5162 just died on me. I have no idea why. It worked for one second, turned off the machine, turned it back on and it was dead. It kept making this grinding noise as the head stepped through the entire disk, probably trying to find track 0 or something, eventually ending in a 1790 error. I guess I'm not surprised as all of the other ST-225's I've encountered were dead. Anyway, It seems that there are two replacement options out there: XT-IDE & SCSI. At first I thought that I should just go with XT-IDE, as it seems to be pretty popular these days. I had used it before with a 5170, and it worked fine. However, XT-IDE would require a lot of components. First you need to pay someone to burn the ROM for you, and then you need to get a generic IDE controller. After that, since the 5162 doesn't have the empty ROM sockets on the mobo that the 5170 has, you would need to buy a network card to hold the XT-IDE ROM, as well as an IDE HDD, or an IDE to CF adapter for flash cards. I recently heard that the XT-IDE cards are now (maybe) compatible with AT's, but I also heard they're pretty slow. After looking at XT-IDE, I then came across a thread discussing SCSI on ISA machines. For SCSI, all I would need to do is get a SCSI controller (I heard the Adaptec 1542CF is good), and a SCSI drive. I also heard that SCSI is faster than XT-IDE. Anyway, I wanted to know if anyone had anyone had any input. Would SCSI actually be faster? Are XT-IDE cards a good choice for AT's, etc. Help would be appreciated!
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