motherboards that accept both ide & sata drives

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I desire to upgrade my system to one that uses the AMD Athlon 64 Dual
Core CPU.

I see that most motherboards now use the SATA hard drive technology.

As my present system contains an IDE drive that I would prefer to
maintain, I am asking if there is such an item as a motherboard that
accepts socket 939 and both SATA and IDE drives?

am I asking too much? all replies, information, opinions, etc.
welcomed!

Aaron in N. Hollywood
 
Most CDs are still IDE - ...don't know about all boards, but the socket AM2 that
I'm looking at has one IDE channel for 2 drives along with the sata. I'm sure that's what
most have now - check with the major manufacturers - asus, gigabyte, etc.
Keep in mind that the 939 is the older model that is already maxed out in terms of available
processors. If you don't have the processor yet, the Socket AM2 will allow future
upgrades, although the price will be higher now.
 
Most do although Intel has stated they won't be putting IDE on motherboards
in the future.

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[email protected] said:
I desire to upgrade my system to one that uses the AMD Athlon 64 Dual
Core CPU.

I see that most motherboards now use the SATA hard drive technology.

As my present system contains an IDE drive that I would prefer to
maintain, I am asking if there is such an item as a motherboard that
accepts socket 939 and both SATA and IDE drives?

am I asking too much? all replies, information, opinions, etc.
welcomed!

Aaron in N. Hollywood
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Nforce4 chipsets can control 4 SATA and 4 PATA drives.

http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce4_family.html

Nvidia's latest 500 series chipsets are here, and you can see
that some chipsets are 4/4 and some are 6/2.

http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/35382/nforce_500_amd_chart.pdf

And a motherboard manufacturer can always use chips like JMB363
or IT8212, if more PATA ports are required.

Paul
 
Most do although Intel has stated they won't be putting IDE on motherboards
in the future.
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We don't want those dvd burners and hard drives running on insecure
channels now do we ?

NOooooooooo.... that wouldn't copy right.
 
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