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965 boards that support > 2 IDE drives?

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severtki

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I'm building a new system and would like to include one of my old ATA 200gb drives + 2 optical drives (DVD+/-RW). I haven't been able to find any MBs that have more than one IDE interface (max 2 drives). I'll be using one SATA drive but would like to save some $ and re-use one plain old ATA as well.

I suppose I could purchase a PCI add-in card for additional IDE support, but doesn't this seem kind of silly?

TIA,
Kirk
 
hmmm, I see what you mean. I checked a few at Newegg and the ones I saw had only 1. Does it have to be a 965 board? I just got a 975 board and it doesn't have this problem.
 
Originally posted by: Diogenes2
Originally posted by: Rike
Originally posted by: Woz
this is why I am waiting for 650i.
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Here's Asus's new 650i board, which seems to have 2 IDE ports. However, this is an unreleased product as far as I know. (Next month maybe?)

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=473&model=1474&modelmenu=1
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Looks line one IDE and One floppy ...
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That's what I thought too when I first looked at the board, but the floppy connector seems to be under the PCI slot, on the far left of the picture between a blue and red connector.
 
I have purchased two different adapters which claim to allow running IDE DVD burners on SATA controllers. Neither one works on my Gigabyte 965 DS3 board, neither on the Intel SATA or the Jmicron SATA. I tried with 4 different DVD burners, no joy.
 
Originally posted by: htne
I have purchased two different adapters which claim to allow running IDE DVD burners on SATA controllers. Neither one works on my Gigabyte 965 DS3 board, neither on the Intel SATA or the Jmicron SATA. I tried with 4 different DVD burners, no joy.
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I've got a DS3 on the way and I'm planning on using a PCI RAID card I have for my IDE DVD burners. It functions as 2 separate IDE channels so hopefully I can run my IDE HD on the regular IDE port of the DS3 as my C drive and all my other drives(all IDE 🙁 ) on the PCI card.

I really need to break down and buy an SATA HD but I already have about half a terabyte of 7200rpm IDE drives. 😛

 
the plextor burners internally actualy just have a marvell or was it jmicron sata to ide adapter inside. so it should work on most drives.


 
No P965 boards. But there are a bunch of Socket 775 (and PCIe x16) motherboards with two or more IDE controllers:

Intel 945P/G:
ASUS P5LD2 (R2.0)
ASUS P5LD2-VM (R2.0)
ASUS P5LD2-VM DH (R2.0)

Intel 975X:
ASUS P5W DH Deluxe
FOXCONN 975X7AB-8EKRS2H
MSI 975X Platinum V.2

nForce 4 SLI X16:
ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe

nForce 570 SLI:
ASUS P5NSLI
ECS NFORCE 570 SLIT-A (V5.1)

nForce 650i SLI:
ASUS P5N-E SLI

The southbridge of the above motherboards are the old ICH7, MCP-04 and MCP51 (nForce 430).

The following motherboard has two onboard IDE-to-SATA adapters (SiI3811A) and allows to install any IDE drives without drivers:

EPoX EP-5P965+ GLI
 
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