Gareth, according to this Spec, yes you can do that.


On-Board IDE

.. An IDE controller on the MCP2/MCP2-T chipset provides IDE HDD/CDROM with
PIO,
Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes
.. Can connect up to four IDE devices




Serial ATA Interface

.. Support 2 serial ATA + 1 ATA133
- RAID O or 1 are supported
- RAID function works w/ATA133 + SATA H/D or 2 SATA H/D
.. Connect up to 2 Serial ATA devices and 1 ATA133 device








"Gareth J M Saunders" <garethsaunders@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Vqpof.62401$Ms6.24783@fe1.news.blueyonder.co. uk...
> Hi folks,
>
> I have an MSI K7N2 Delta series motherboard (NVIDIA nForce2 chipset) which
> has IDE1 and IDE2, to which I've connected 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
> 120
> GB Plus (ST312022A), plus 1 x CDRW and 1 x DVD+/-RW
>
> It also has 2 x SATA interface ports, SER1 and SER2. "Both connectors are
> fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA
> connector can connect to 1 hard disk device."
>
> My question: Am I right in thinking then that could connect a further 2
> hard
> drives (SATA) to this setup, giving me 4 x hard drives in all?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gareth J M Saunders
> Edinburgh UK
>