one ide controller

[LAT]

Greetings All!

My motherboard fried so I installed a new one (ga-m61p-s3). Wonderful board with enough pci slots to fit my tv tuners for this mythtv box. Connect up everything (except dvd) and all is well and I'm a happy camper except.....

The board has only one ide controller and I have my (boot) hard drive on it which has left my dvd out of the picture.

Can anyone give suggestions/recommendations to have access to dvd?

TIA
lat

(this is Debian Lenny on 2.6.21 if that helps)

[JohnT]

You can always buy an expansion card with an additional IDE controller.

[saikee]

An onboard IDE controller is capable of serving a master and a slave so two IDE devices are possible.

If the ribbon cable does not have 3 plugs one can purchase one easily. A 80-wire cable is needed to give 133 ATA speed although CD/DVD drives are still running at 33ATA.

New generation of mobo has a lot of Sata connections and there are now new CD/DVD drives designed for Sata connections too.