The other connector, you see on the motherboard, is for a floppy drive.
As there's two IDE optical drives installed and if you have a spare PCI slot, then you could buy a IDE PCI controller card [cost $30-$50] that has two IDE ports. Or, you could buy a converter kit to convert IDE drive to SATA, providing there's space for it inside the case.
Personally, I would prefer to use the PCI controller card, but if you don't have a spare PCI slot, then you will have use the convertor.
You could also, use an powered USB 2.0 IDE external enclosure.
What did you do about the power connections ? SATA and IDE have totally different connectors, and my new Dimension E510 does not have a IDE power connector ( well it does, but it's used up by the two DVD drives)
shesagordie
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Personally, I would prefer to use the PCI controller card, but if you don't have a spare PCI slot, then you will have use the convertor.
You could also, use an powered USB 2.0 IDE external enclosure.
http://www.addonics.com/products/io/ide_sata.asp
Bev
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January 18th, 2006 21:00
Thank you for the help.
the rabbit
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What did you do about the power connections ? SATA and IDE have totally different connectors, and my new Dimension E510 does not have a IDE power connector ( well it does, but it's used up by the two DVD drives)
thanks
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January 22nd, 2006 22:00
My 4700 had a power supply with spare cables for both IATA and IDE; so I didn't have that problem.
Sorry I can't help.
the rabbit