SCSI is so much better than IDE. It does not surprise me that the original posters problem turned out to be user error, as 9 times out of 10 it usually is. I have SCSI on almost all of my Amiga computers, even my A1200 w/Blizzard 1260 and have not had hardly any problems with any of them, except the SCSI wide controller on both of my Cyberstorm PPC accelerators. I am still working on getting them setup correctly so I can enjoy the speed that they provide above and beyond any Amiga IDE controller I have ever read about. (and I am with Smerf regarding having things written down, or printed out, as age surely has a way of blurring the memory)