I would like to add my two cents to this. I have a 2940UW and faced a
similar situation. What some one on this list, Bill or even David suggested
was to get a 50 pin internal to external adapter. This allows me to connect
my internal devices, CD, ZIP and an external jaz. This leaves the UW free
for UW hard drives. A relatively inexpensive solution for a simple problem.
Makes the UW worth the few extra bucks. By the way, someone suggested that
you could connect to all three bus's on the adapter, I know that you can't
do that on a 2940UW. I don't know about the U2W, as was stated.
Brad Loomis
Morro Bay, CA



> On 22 Jul 98 at 16:19, Nicolas Cure wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your suggestion. But what would you recommend if I
> > wanted to buy a wide hard drive, which in fact is what I'm planning
> > to buy. What is your opinion on the 2940UW. I aprreciate all your
> > help since this is really the first time I'm going to build my own
> > PC.
>
>   As I recall, you intended to add a scanner to this system.  You can
> free the card's external connector for use by running all narrow
> devices internally, or by putting wide/narrow adapters on devices
> that don't match the connector you're using, or by using a card with
> only one (narrow...) internal connector.
>
>   My reservation about the 2940UW is that the external connector on
> it-- which you can't reliably use anyway if you use both the wide and
> narrow internal connectors -- is wide.  You're not likely to be
> looking at wide external devices, so you're going to add an expensive
> wide-to-narrow adapter to the UW's external connector.
>   The Diamond Fireport 40 offers similar capability, and a narrow
> external connector, for about half the price of a 2940UW.  That's
> what I recommend to people who might want to add a wide drive, but
> are on a budget.
>
> David G
>