ide to scsi converters?

do these slow down the scsi's to ide standards?

Yes.

In fact, I have only seen converters that adapt low-speed SCSI to IDE, the idea being you're buying such an adapter in order to continue using your old drives. Chances are, the best you can find will limit the SCSI drive itself to 40 MB/s, which is far less than the ATA maximum.

However, if you've found U160 or U320 adapters, I'd like to take a look. They will still be limited by the IDE bus, though.

take yer pick

http://www.addonics.com/products/io/

That's backwards. I'm fairly sure willybeef wants an adapter to take a SCSI drive and place it on the IDE bus.

thanks guys, was just checking, i kind of knew that would be the problem but i prefer a second opinion.

What exactly is it that you're wanting to do, Willy? Maybe we can offer some alternative solutions?