HELP: want more than 2 IDE devices when MB got 1 IDE slot.....

[dhruba.bandopadhyay]

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?

[Sharktooth]

you need a PCI IDE expansion board or connect the HD externally thru USB/Firewire adapter.

[Inventive Software]

They can't phase out IDE completely because of the huge base of IDE optical drives, so they now have 1 so you can have 2 drives connected if necessary. But a PCI expansion card will do the trick if you have no other devices in the PCI slots hogging the bandwidth.

[ilovejedd]

How about an IDE/SATA adapter like this one (http://www.satasite.com/sata-ide-converter.htm)? I'm sure he should have a couple of extra SATA slots on his mobo so he can use those slots for his IDE HDD.

[CWR03]

How about an IDE/SATA adapter like this one (http://www.satasite.com/sata-ide-converter.htm)? I'm sure he should have a couple of extra SATA slots on his mobo so he can use those slots for his IDE HDD.
I tried a similar adaptor with a new motherboard, but they didn't work. I ended up using a PCI slot RAID controller. Hopefully the one you linked to is better than the piece of junk I tried.