PATA alternatives

Just bought an intel Dp35DP motherboard.

Now I realize there are not enough IDE/PATA connectors to connect my
two IDE hard drives and the two CD/DVD players I wanted to connect.

Any thoughts on the following alternatives?

1. A PCI-E card to provide more IDE connectors? Any links to a good
option?

2. External USB enclosure for the two old IDE drives?

3. NAS enclosure for the two IDE drives?

are options 2 and 3 throwing good money after bad?

Any offers on two slightly used 160Mb ATA drives? (joke).

MikeB <> wrote in news:1185029937.511835.314290
@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com:

> Just bought an intel Dp35DP motherboard.
>
> Now I realize there are not enough IDE/PATA connectors to connect my
> two IDE hard drives and the two CD/DVD players I wanted to connect.
>
> Any thoughts on the following alternatives?
>
> 1. A PCI-E card to provide more IDE connectors? Any links to a good
> option?
>
> 2. External USB enclosure for the two old IDE drives?
>
> 3. NAS enclosure for the two IDE drives?
>
> are options 2 and 3 throwing good money after bad?
>
> Any offers on two slightly used 160Mb ATA drives? (joke).
>
>

OK, I had to look it up. Appearently it only supprts one IDE
channal (is IDE going the way of the Floppy?). THe question
is why do you want to install those two hard drives anyway??
If it's just to get to the data on them, then forget installing
them. Get a big honkin' SATA drive and copy the data from the
older drives to the new SATA drive. You do that by temporarily
installing it on the IDE interface. Yes you have to disconnect one
of your CD-Rom drives, but you can reconnect it after you have
copied the data off the hard drives.

If you have an older machine laying around, have a look at
www.freenas.com. A fairly inexpensive way to get a NAS up and
running. If the older machine has two IDE channels you can
get the two older drives in there. Better yet, stuff it full
of four drives and do the install from a thumb drive.

If you must have the drived instaled, I would go with the
USB option, seeing as you have 12 USB ports on that thing.
I would get a USB to IDE cable and install the drives internaly.

On Jul 22, 7:38 pm, Gordon <go...@alltomyself.com> wrote:
> MikeB <MPBr...@gmail.com> wrote in news:1185029937.511835.314290
> @r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>
> > Just bought an intel Dp35DP motherboard.
>
> > Now I realize there are not enough IDE/PATA connectors to connect my
> > two IDE hard drives and the two CD/DVD players I wanted to connect.
>
> > Any thoughts on the following alternatives?
>
> > 1. A PCI-E card to provide more IDE connectors? Any links to a good
> > option?
>
> > 2. External USB enclosure for the two old IDE drives?
>
> > 3. NAS enclosure for the two IDE drives?
>
> > are options 2 and 3 throwing good money after bad?
>
> > Any offers on two slightly used 160Mb ATA drives? (joke).
>
> OK, I had to look it up. Appearently it only supprts one IDE
> channal (is IDE going the way of the Floppy?). THe question
> is why do you want to install those two hard drives anyway??
> If it's just to get to the data on them, then forget installing
> them. Get a big honkin' SATA drive and copy the data from the
> older drives to the new SATA drive. You do that by temporarily
> installing it on the IDE interface. Yes you have to disconnect one
> of your CD-Rom drives, but you can reconnect it after you have
> copied the data off the hard drives.
>
> If you have an older machine laying around, have a look atwww.freenas.com. A fairly inexpensive way to get a NAS up and
> running. If the older machine has two IDE channels you can
> get the two older drives in there. Better yet, stuff it full
> of four drives and do the install from a thumb drive.
>
> If you must have the drived instaled, I would go with the
> USB option, seeing as you have 12 USB ports on that thing.
> I would get a USB to IDE cable and install the drives internaly.

Really didn't want to spend extra $ on a new SATA drive. I also have
Win98 Installed on one of the drives for some games my daughter plays
that doesn't work so well under XP.

But I've found a slower (150Mbs) 250Mb SATA drive at Fry's this am, so
your idea of IDE to USB is a great way to keep the drives around. I'll
look into it. thanks.

It does seem I'll have almost an entire PC worth of older stuff after
this "upgrade", so the home NAS is an idea, the problem is that the
entire upgrade saga started because the original PC would just die.
Not necessarily when in use, but I'd leave it powered up and when I
get back to it (overnight), it would be powered down and wouldn't
power back up until I pulled the power cord out for 30 seconds or so.

Initially suspected the power supply, but replacing that didn't make a
difference. Then I replaced the memory, then the video card....