> -----Messaggio originale----- > Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:47:11 +0200 > From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Adding IDE card to SATA motherboard > > 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. How > well do PCI cards that add IDE ports work? Any known gotchas? Does the > 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? I have two Hamlet PCI controller (20 € each) with one IDE port (2 devices) and two sata port in two different PC - an old machine (2001) and a new one (2007) and they perform quite well in both cases with ultra-ata maxtor hard drives. After installation, the boot of the machine was the first time slower than usual, then it returned to normal values. The PCI cards added their own bios to the boot sequence, with a special key to enter their setup function if needed. They worked absolutely out of the box. As for which devices connect to the MB and which to the card, the only thing that you have to keep in mind is that not all PCI card are "bootable" (mine are not, for instance so I use them for storage only). The performance is the same. Roberto Malinverni -- Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' risultato non infetto.
