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First post, by Holering

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Any PCI videocard or soundcard exist with an IDE interface?

Reply 1 of 2, by Robin4

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No. only ISA soundcards did had an IDE interface, i never had seen one on a PCI Vga card or PCI soundcard. When we lived in that period, IDE was already available on the motherboard.
Only options are raid controllers with IDE onboard as PCI card.

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Reply 2 of 2, by obobskivich

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There are non-RAID PCI IDE controllers as well; Rosewell has made a few, and there's probably other makers too. I have one of the Rosewill ones - it's been pretty compatible with every system I've used it in, but I haven't tried it in anything terribly old. The newer Creative cards (like Audigy) have headers that can accept an IDE cable but they aren't providing IDE (also be careful if you use the IDE cable as it isn't keyed for them - it's possible to install it without lining pins up vs using the Creative cable which *is* keyed (and cannot be used for IDE); they're providing AD_EXT (or some other Creative standard depending on the version of board you have) for the Creative break-out; it does include IEEE 1394 and raw I2S though.