Adding a third Hard Drive

I would like to add a third hard rive to be used only for storage. This
would be setup as a second "slave" drive. My motherboard has 2 IDE
connectors on it. Both of these are used by Hard Drives (2) and CD-ROMs(2).
Ths motherboard has another IDE connector for RAID. Can I use this
connector for the third drive and is there anything I must change in the
BIOS? If this is not an option, will purchasing a PCI controller card
resolve this?

Thank you for your response and time.

Chris

CJM <cjm DeleteThis @who.net> wrote in message
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 > I would like to add a third hard rive to be used only for storage.
 > This would be setup as a second "slave" drive. My motherboard
 > has 2 IDE connectors on it. Both of these are used by Hard Drives
 > (2) and CD-ROMs(2). Ths motherboard has another IDE connector
 > for RAID. Can I use this connector for the third drive

Usually, but not always. Varys with the motherboard.

 > and is there anything I must change in the BIOS?

Again, that varys with the motherboard.

 > If this is not an option, will purchasing
 > a PCI controller card resolve this?

Yep. Tho it can make more sense to just replace one
of the current hard drives with a bigger one instead.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->