> ports, and I've got too much IDE hardware to junk it and buy SATA. How > well do PCI cards that add IDE ports work? Any known gotchas? Does the So long as they are supported they just work. Most are. Your choice does drop dramatically if you have no PCI slots just newer stuff however. > OS see them as different from the M/B's IDE ports? 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. Should > the hard drives be on the M/B, and the burners (rarely used) on the > card, or vice versa? On a PCI bus system put the most important devices on motherboard ports as they are usually on a much faster bus. With newer busses its much less of an issue. Alan
