[Ham-Computers] Adding an IDE hard drive to a SATA system

[Frank]

Dave 'Doc' Corio wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses!
> 
> Adding an IDE controller card is out, as I already filled
> the available slots. It's not an old drive - just not
> quite new. It's an 80G drive that was only used a few
> weeks.
> 
> As for looking at the instructions, they are sadly
> lacking on today's new machines. I do know that the cable
> to the hard drive in the new machine is a double, so
> another SATA drive could be added easily, and the CD-ROM
> drive also has a double-tap, but not sure if that would
> work for the extra hard-drive. I'm sure not an expert on
> these things!
> 

As someone else had mentioned, the CD interface is IDE.  A 
fact I completely overlooked.  It should do no harm to try 
the extra tap and see if you can get the bios to recognize 
the IDE hard drive.  80gig is a respectable amount of storage.

Regards,
Frank Kamp