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General => Users => Topic started by: brake16 on April 12, 2009, 04:59:58 am
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Good Morning
Well, silly me. :-[ I have 2 old hard drives waiting to be used, and my choice of an old CD-ROM drive or a DVD-RW drive. Unfortunately, none of them have SATA connectors, which seem to be required by the ECS mobo I was considering (according to the wiki). As a second choice, the ASUS M3A78-EM mobo is well documented here (thanks to Sethj), requiring only a separate nVidia card to achieve UI2 with alpha. I know the ASUS board has a single IDE connection, so my question for the masses is this:
Does anybody know if the ASUS board will function with IDE-connected hdd & optical drive?
To my way of thinking, I'd rather get the ASUS board and have to pick up a video card, than get the ECS board and have to pick up a SATA hard drive & a SATA optical drive.
Thanks
brake16
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That's exactly how I have my core hooked up- hdd and dvd-rw drive connected on a single IDE cable on the M3A78-EM.
I use a nvidia 8500 gt to drive my video- get UI2 with overlay and am powering a 52" rear projection tv over dvi...
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Sweet! Thanks jimmejames.
brake16
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Although not on my Linux box, I have used an IDE to SATA adapter to salvage some legacy storage. Works perfectly fine. If you shop around you can get one cheap.
Craptastic