Switching Mother Boards

[Ron Bellomo]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I've an old machine with a bad motherboard that I'll replace and
> install Ubuntu on. The machine currently has IDE drives in it (one
> optical, two hard drives). I can get a good deal on a used M/B with a
> speedy pentium and half a GB of RAM. However, it is a SATA M/B:
> ASROCK K8NF4G SATA2
>
> Is there any way that I can connect my optical and hard IDE drives to
> the SATA motherboard?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dotan Cohen
> http://what-is-what.com
>
You could consider an internal PCI IDE controller card. You should be 
able to find one that will work with linux.

Some mainboards have IDE interfaces in addition to SATA. You might look 
into that possibility.