Gigabyte DS3 Question

[aurareturn]

I want to get a Gigabyte DS3 with a C2d but I don't want to upgrade to SATA yet. I have a 160Gb IDe drive and I was wondering if I can use that with an IDE DVD drive.

 

[MTDEW]

Yes you can.
Set the hard drive as master and your dvd drive as slave.

OR

You can use one of these to run your hard drive on the SATA if you want.

 

[Roguestar]

What he said. It still has two PATA (IDE) connections. One port on the motherboard can hook up two devices per channel.

 

[Sniper82]

Originally posted by: aurareturn
I want to get a Gigabyte DS3 with a C2d but I don't want to upgrade to SATA yet. I have a 160Gb IDe drive and I was wondering if I can use that with an IDE DVD drive.

Depending on your case it might be hard to hook them together as the cable might not reach between them.

 

[Dragoon42]

Originally posted by: Sniper82

Originally posted by: aurareturn
I want to get a Gigabyte DS3 with a C2d but I don't want to upgrade to SATA yet. I have a 160Gb IDe drive and I was wondering if I can use that with an IDE DVD drive.

Depending on your case it might be hard to hook them together as the cable might not reach between them.

Yea... you need like a cm stacker or something that can place the hdd + dvd drive at the BOTTOM of the case. Or maybe at the middle of the case. One of my buddies can only place his at the top of the case and it's not working out to well. Does anyone know if you can get an IDE slave extension cable?

 

[Conky]

You can also use a PCI IDE controller card.

I have 2 DVD burners on my DS3's single IDE connection and 4 additional IDE HD's connected to a Promise brand PCI card. I didn't want to just throw out all my old HDs.

 

[Roguestar]

A long IDE cable shouldn't be that hard to find . I have a DVD drive and hard drive attached on IDE at the moment and I moved the DVD drive down to the lowest 5.25" bay to accomodate cabling.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Beachboy1
You can also use a PCI IDE controller card.

I have 2 DVD burners on my DS3's single IDE connection and 4 additional IDE HD's connected to a Promise brand PCI card. I didn't want to just throw out all my old HDs.

Or a PCI-e IDE Controller

 

[Roguestar]

^^^ Wow, there are actually peripherals out for PCI-E?! They seem to be rarer than chicken teeth.

 

[Jeff7]

Yup. You can even get PCI-e serial and parallel port adapters. And PCI-e x1 videocards.
Check out Newegg, search for PCI Express x1.
It's mainly that sort of I/O adapters, and lots of RAID cards.