I have been using an adaptor board to convert my IDE drives to SATA. This
was necessary for me since I got the Intel motherboard (with SATA RAID)
before any SATA hard drives were available. There are several companies
making such adaptors. I have had no trouble with using them, except that one
failed early on, but it was exchanged under warranty. The one I use is made
by Iwill.

Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> Recently purchased an HP media center pc.  Came with 2
> optical drives and 1 SATA hard drive.  Don't see any ability
> to use any of my older 80/120/160 GB drives unless I do
> external storage since the SATA cable doesn't support IDE and
> the only motherboard connectors are either SATA or for a
> floppy drive.  Any other options to add an older drive
> internally?  There are spare power connectors in the case,
> and assume power supply can handle it.

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