Hard drive to PCI card

[Baez]

does anyone know how those hard drive to PCI card things work? i bought a hard drive that was too big for my mainboard and the tech guy at MSI suggested that i try to hook my hard drive to a PCI card. do they work well? and how does windows know that its a working hard drive?

chris

 

[Lonewolf5460]

drivers,I have one hooked up to two 30 gigs.
dont worry it will work.

 

[Baez]

ok thats good to know. but what about a 250gig hard drive? i bought it a week ago and its already opened. does it matter what size it is or what? do i need a better PCI card?

 

[Lonewolf5460]

no it does not matter check maxtor.com that is th type of card I have.

 

[Baez]

is a USB connection to my internal HDD a faster way or is PCI better?

 

[TheMajor]

PCI is better. I'use a PCI IDE controller card for one of my CD-ROM devices cause I have 3 hard disks.