how can I find out if my CD drive has that?
-Emo
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how can I find out if my CD drive has that?
-Emo
The answer is no. No Compaq desktops have SCSI in them, even my computer doesn't have SCSI..
what is that anyway?
(so I'm guessing my HDD doenst have it either??)
-Emo
It's a super fast transfer interface mostly used for servers but it's also very expensive. It's also dying out as IDE is cheaper and almost as fast.
High speed data transfer, mainly used in servers and stuff where it needs the speed...
Can't you just open up your computer and look and the drives or cables?
It stands for 'Small Computer Systems Interface'. It's an alternative kind of device interface to IDE. It's not really all that much faster, but it's more consistent. Still, it is a bit faster. If you need to write data quickly (like if you're writing video to a file on-the-fly) then it's pretty essential, but for most purposes it's not worth it.
The easiest way to tell if you have any SCSI devices is to look at your computer's boot-up sequence. On the screen that shows up after the memory checks, there is a box that contains details of all your IDE devices. If you have an ATAPI CD-ROM drive (ie. an IDE drive) it will show up in that box along with any IDE hard drives or other IDE devices.
If you have a SCSI controller in your system, there will usually be another screen after the IDE screen that will display information about any SCSI devices you have on your system.
Your CD-ROM is almost certainly IDE, not SCSI. You will probably not see the SCSI screen since you probably don't have a SCSI controller.
Hmm - isn't ATAPI just a cheap version of SCSI over IDE? There are true IDE CD-ROMs that aren't ATAPI.
I think you're kinda missing the point: the answer is:
NO SCSI on your box