Okay I got this card out of a machine that I had got from my dads boss,  Its a maxtor PCI IDE Card.  The thing is I dont know how to set these up does it connect to the IDE connector on the BOARD or do you just connect to the card?It GOES into a PCI slot.
It enables you to use more than 4 IDE drives on a machine.
It needs Drivers to function properly.I know that it goes in a pci.  but do you just connect an ide cable from it to the drive or from it to the board.You connect the IDE cable from the card to the hard drive.  Don't forget to set the hard drive jumper(s) for Master/Slave/Single/Cable_Select (whatever is appropriate for your configuration and drive).Okay wasnt really to sure as you seen.You said four drives???  I have two ide connectors on it so with the board its three total, but each ribbon cable can have two drives, so couldnt I have six if I really wanted an if the CASE could hold all them?Please re-read my post. Most computers have 2 IDE slots which can have 2 devices connected for a total of 4.

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It enables you to use more than 4 IDE drives on a machine.