Switching Mother Boards

[Doug Rintoul]

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
The K8NF4G has 2 ATA 133 IDE ports as well as SATA ports. So you should
be able to hook up you IDE drives to it directly.

Doug.