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Scott, >> Did you build the system or buy it assembled and if so from which company? I believe it has a controller on-board, right? We put them together ourselves. It does have PCI IDE controllers on board; my machine has two Maxtor MXT-540A's hooked up to it, and the other has a Micropolis 2217A connected. If you are going to be using SCSI, be sure you have AMI flash bios ver 1.00.08 or 1.00.10, although people have been reporting quirks they don't like with .10 and going back to .08. The flash bios updates are available off the Intel iPAN bbs. If you get a board with bios 1.00.03, it's necessary to go to 1.00.06 before you can go to 1.00.08. Our office manager has ordered a Dell OmniPlex machine, which also uses this same motherboard, (as do many others). I'll let you know how it works compared to our "home-brewed" systems. John