Adding IDE card to SATA motherboard

[Lamar Owen]

On Monday 15 October 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Thanks. The PCI card with the IDE ports is rather old, and second
> hand, so I'm not sure if it's of the 'just works' variety. I guess
> that I'll try it on an old motherboard first, see how it works, and
> only then decide [not] to use it.

You will find a 137GB capacity limit on some ATA/66 and ATA/100 cards.  If the 
card isn't ATA/133 capable, troll eBay for an ATA/133 card.

Also, some of these add-on cards can't boot from CD.
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