Ide HDD to SATA motherboard convertor

[dbonniwell]

I bought a mobo with only one IDE parallel connector.
I have use that IDE for the DVD and CD drives.
SATA needs to be hooked to the HDD. I have a 40g master and 250g slave hdd.
I found adaptors or convertors, on the i-net that allow me to use my IDE HDD with my SATA motherboard.
Question
do they work and will they affect gaming? Any one have any experience or know?
thanks

 

[Rik]

They work well, i'm using one right now. I have a 200gig ata connected to it.

 

[Jesse_hz]

You could also get a new IDE controller for PCI and use that.

 

[dbonniwell]

can you tell me more about this IDE controller card, What are they and what exactly do they do? can I hook two HDD to one card?
and do they make them so you can use a PCI-e 1x slot? as my PCI slots on the board I purchased are already called for.
thanks

 

[Jesse_hz]

You can buy them with more than one channel and for every channel you can connect 2 HDDs so yes you can do that.
I'm pretty sure they make them for PCIe x1 too.

 

[dbonniwell]

If I go with the convertor, since I have 2 HDDs 40g Master and 250g slave, how do I set the jumpers on the HDD when using this convertor.

here is the website for the adaptor
http://www.cooldrives.com/idehadrtosap.html
thanks

 

[Rik]

The manual will tell you, but i believe cable select and master settings work fine with it.