Yesterday, I tried to transfer a system from an existing 4GB IBM SCSI drive to a new Maxtor 80GB IDE drive. The SCSI is attached to an Adaptec 2940uw Card and the IDE could be attached to either the on-board controller or a Promise UDMA card.

Maxtor's MaxBlast software didn't seem to support this scenario (i.e. SCSI to IDE transfer), so I tried PowerQuest's DriveCopy. Unfortunately, I ran into an issue with conventional memory. When I booted the system with the SCSI card attached, the maximum conventional memory available was 558K - well below the requisite for DriveCopy to complete successfully, and, sure enough - it didn't.

Since I don't have much experience with SCSI to IDE transfer, I would appreciate a steer toward a good solution for this scenario.