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dhruba.bandopadhyay
11-12-2006, 08:30
I got a ECS 915G-A motherboard which has only 1 IDE slot. In the past I had motherboards with 4 IDE slots (for RAID, etc.). I guess these new motherboards are phasing out IDE slots and replacing them with SATA slots. I have a IDE HD & 2 IDE DVD drives. As you can see, I can only use 1 HD & 1 DVD drive. I do not want to buy a new HD. Is there any way to get another IDE device? Do I have to buy one of those IDE expansion boards?

GLH
11-12-2006, 08:36
Simply buy a IDE controller card and put it in your pci-slot.

Frankenstein
18-02-2007, 03:14
you could by a simple sata to ide converter i think they retail for around 15-20 here in AUS.