additional ide controller?

[jewbloob]

my dad just gave me 2 Dual-PIII servers. he had his SCSI drives in there but he wanted me to take them out. I had no problem with this, because im just putting together a file server for myself with 2 shitty little 40gb IDE hard drives i have laying around.

so I open it up and it only has 1 ide controller on the board. the cd drive is hooked up to it, leaving only one connection open. i have a PCI IDE controller laying around. if i stick this into the computer, will it work just as i want? would i need to specify anything in the bios? would it even work?

 

[Copper0]

Just plug it in and it shouldwork. The drives won't show up in your bios (the card has its own). There maybe a setting in your bios that has to be changed but I don't know enough about your setup.