[Sir Krustin]

You have three IDE devices (hard disks) and one IDE CDROM. If you want to keep your existing devices, your only real option is SCSI.

Adaptec host adapters are expensive, but they're rock solid and they run under *any* operating system. Tekram is a good substitute, and costs much less.

I would suggest buying a big-ass HD and cramming all the stuff you have onto that one HD, removing the other HDs. Perhaps you can recoup some investment by selling the old HDs. That would free up two IDE slots for further upgrades.

BTW, I have an Adaptec 2930U SCSI adapter on my machine, my scanner, DVD player, and cd burner are all SCSI. I also have an busmastering IDE CDROM. Love the setup, I very rarely have buffer underruns (unless I use winblows, of course)