Intel board help

[Tech&ME]

I just check the Intel website, the Motherboard on the site D915GAG and D915DUX for MicroATX cabinet has only one IDE connector, which means I cannot connect a CD-ROM Drive if i have two HDDs. Is it true. Please tell me how can i connect my cd-rom drive in this case. I am confused ?? Please Help

 

[swatkat]

These newer motherboards support SATA and hence only one IDE connecter is provided.
In that case you have to use PCI slot IDE Controller Cards.

 

[mohit]

hey swatkat ... can you tell me what is the approximate price of such PCI slot IDE Controllers and also are there any issues with installing them and their perfomance ?

 

[darklord]

You can get Silicon Image based IDE RAID card supporting 4 IDE Devices with support for RAID 0,0+1,1

It should cost you approx. 1200-1500/-

Speed is good enough