Switching Mother Boards

[Dana J. Laude]

On Friday 07 July 2006 14:59, 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?

I just looked up the specs for your motherboard, and it has support for
DMA/ATA-133 (Ultra) x 2, Serial ATA II x 2. So you're good to go.

Dana