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Please recommend the best solution.

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RKS

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Please recommend the best solution.

I just bought a new board that has:

4 Serial ATA slots

4 Conventional PCI Slots

but only 1 Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support


Since I have to buy components piece-meal I want to migrate my
current 4 PATA devices (2 HDDs & 2 optical drives) to the new mobo.

So I guess my only option is to get a controller card (If so which one; I don't plan on using RAID) for at least two of the devices since the board can only handle 2 PATA items.
I was advised that controller cards are usually only for HDDs
and not optical drives.

What is a good controller card for this situation and
How should I configure/arrange the 4 items.

If I boot from a HDD can it be a drive on the controller card
or does it have to be on the actual board?

Should I not even think about putting the two optical drives
on the same channel even if I don't burn from 1 drive to the other?


Thanks for any help.....




 
The cheapest one.
Put the optical drives on the motherboard and the hard drives on the controller card.
I like 1 device per channel though, so I'd probably try splitting them all up.
 
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