On 13 May 98 at 8:55, James Kerr wrote:

> >I have a scanner that requires a SCSI II card. Am considering an upgrade of
> >my motherboard to one that has an onboard UW SCSI controller. Can anyone
> >advise me if the scanner that specs. call for scsi2 would work with this
> >controller or would I need to add in a scsi 2 card.
>
> You could get an adapter to be able to connect your scanner to the UW bus,
> but for a little more money I would get a cheap host adapter for the scanner
> alone, and leave it off the UW bus completely, you don't want that sucker
> slowing down your disk access if you paid a bunch of money for a UW HD. Just
> my $0.02

  This should never be an issue unless the scanner is actively in use
at a given moment -- and maybe not even then.
  My general guideline is that if you have more than a single
little-used SCSI peripheral (the scanner), a cheap host adapter is a
waste of a slot.

David G