While I am at it, regular IDE drives should work in the case for the CD(RW) and Hard Disk? Are there size limitations like the 4GB idea? Appreciate any help on this.
You can connect two IDE drives to the IDE bus (one master and one slave). HDDs will work out of the box (after being partitioned and formatted), CD drives need additional drivers, because the built-in IDE driver does not recognise ATAPI drives.
The 4GB limit applies to all devices but can be extended by additional software drivers.
The only problem with software drivers is that they have to be loaded from disk and as such the partition the drivers are loaded from has to be accessible by the built-in driver i.e. inside the first 4GB of the HDD.
Bye,
Thomas
