Are you telling me that you have an adapter that allows you to run an IDE drive on the Serial ATA port? If so, I find that rather interesting. But I don't see why I'd want to do it, unless one or both of my regular IDE channels are bad.

The NF7-S has 4 connectors for drives. IDE1, IDE2, SATA1, and SATA2. The board also comes with an adaptor ("serillel" they call it) which lets you use one of the SATA connectors as an extra IDE device (just one per connector, no master/slave stuff.) If I wanted, I could buy another serillel adaptor to add another drive to the SATA2 connector.

There's no *great* advantage to running IDE on the SATA as I'm doing, except that it frees up the other IDE chains for other devices. Some day I will get a fast SATA drive (the new WD 10000 RPM ones look great) but for now, it's nice to have the flexibility of two extra IDE devices.