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Serial ATA to IDE Converter for Hard Drive

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Hi

I'm trying to connect an IDE hard drive to my computer. Motherboard has one IDE connecter to which I've connected the IDE DVD/CD and one other IDE hard drive.

My main hard drive is connected to the motherboard via a Serial ATA (SATA)connector. I have a second IDE drive that I am trying to connect to the system, hopefully onto the spare SATA connector on the motherboard (giving me 3 hard drives in total).

Anyone know if I can get a converter cable to go from a 40 pin IDE connector on the IDE hard drive drive down to the SATA connector on the motherboard? I'm not really worried about trying to match the transfer rates because it will only be used for storage. Alternatively, can you get a PCI hard disk controller card from anywhere that I could connect the IDE hard into?

Appreciate any help.

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