Are there any more motherboards with IDE connectors instea..

From what I've read, there are, or will be adapters that let you use
standard 40 pin ide drives on a sata port. I believe I've even seen a couple
of motherboards that come with the gadget.

"Andy Louie" <andylouie.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 > As I see many places are still selling IDE Drives although some more
 > are coming... So one is just limited to only SATA devices then ? As I
 > hate spending more money on converting IDE drives... also no
 > functionalor performance diff. What models does GA has which has only
 > IDE connectors and the newest model ?<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: Are there any more motherboards with IDE connectors instea.. 

The Abit IC7G comes with one, however it is not rated for RAID for some
reason.
There are apparently SATA to PATA converters already on the market, but they
are still hard to find.

Does anyone have good experience with these?
Do any work with RAID, non HD devices EG CD, DVD etc.?

- Tim



"Sue McCartin" <suemccartin DeleteThis @mindspring.com> wrote in message
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 > From what I've read, there are, or will be adapters that let you use
 > standard 40 pin ide drives on a sata port. I believe I've even seen a
couple
 > of motherboards that come with the gadget.
 >
 > "Andy Louie" <andylouie DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
 > news:b558ed83.0307241223.73fdb76e@posting.google.com...
  > > As I see many places are still selling IDE Drives although some more
  > > are coming... So one is just limited to only SATA devices then ? As I
  > > hate spending more money on converting IDE drives... also no
  > > functionalor performance diff. What models does GA has which has only
  > > IDE connectors and the newest model ?
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: Are there any more motherboards with IDE connectors instea.. 

FWTW, the GA-8KNXP handles everything.

It has two SATA connectors that uses the Intel chipset to support RAID, is
has two more SATA connectors that use a Silicon Image chip to support RAID,
it has the standard two IDE connectors to support 4 standard non-RAID
devices, and it also has two more IDE connectors that support 4 IDE devices
for RAID.

That's a total of 12 drives at once.


"Tim" <Tim.TakeThisOut@NoSpam.com> wrote in message news:bgv12q$1he$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
 > The Abit IC7G comes with one, however it is not rated for RAID for some
 > reason.
 > There are apparently SATA to PATA converters already on the market, but
they
 > are still hard to find.
 >
 > Does anyone have good experience with these?
 > Do any work with RAID, non HD devices EG CD, DVD etc.?
 >
 > - Tim
 >
 >
 >
 > "Sue McCartin" <suemccartin.TakeThisOut@mindspring.com> wrote in message
 > news:bfsq6j$1vf$1@slb9.atl.mindspring.net...
  > > From what I've read, there are, or will be adapters that let you use
  > > standard 40 pin ide drives on a sata port. I believe I've even seen a
 > couple
  > > of motherboards that come with the gadget.
  > >
  > > "Andy Louie" <andylouie.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
  > > news:b558ed83.0307241223.73fdb76e@posting.google.com...
   > > > As I see many places are still selling IDE Drives although some more
   > > > are coming... So one is just limited to only SATA devices then ? As I
   > > > hate spending more money on converting IDE drives... also no
   > > > functionalor performance diff. What models does GA has which has only
   > > > IDE connectors and the newest model ?
  > >
  > >
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: Are there any more motherboards with IDE connectors instea..