Re: Not enough IDE ports

On 15/10/2007, Jonathan Hirschman <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
There's a good chance that my next motherboard won't have enough IDE
ports, and I've got too much IDE hardware to junk it and buy SATA.
There are PATA<->SATA converters. They allow you to use your PATA
devices on SATA. This may or may not be appealing, and I cannot testify
to how well they work.

How
well do PCI cards that add IDE ports work? Any known gotchas?
They generally work fine. Gotchas? That's very brand and chipset
specific. Promise won't allow you to have more than three of their cards
in a box - their onboard BIOS serves as a form of copy protection (they
want to sell you RAID cards). Not cool.

I need to find out what type this particular card that I have is. If
they're cheap, I may just buy a new one.

Does the
OS see them as different from the M/B's IDE ports?
Shouldn't be different at all; you may or may not be able to boot from a
device on the card, depending upon the card and your PC's BIOS.

Specifically, I
need to run two DVD burners and two 400 GB hard drives, all IDE, on a
motherboard with one IDE controller and one SATA controller.
You have a motherboard with ONE PATA connector and ONE SATA, and that's
it? Wow, that's nasty.

Well, it might have more than one SATA connection, but it's only got
one IDE connection and that's the problem.

Should
the hard drives be on the M/B, and the burners (rarely used) on the
card, or vice versa?

I'd think that putting the burners on the card make the most sense. You
may have boot issues that way.

I'll put the boot hard drive on the m/b, and one burner on it as well
so that I can boot from CD.

Dotan Cohen

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