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.....
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.....