Most IDE controller cards that I have seen have their own BIOS on board,
and have two controllers to give a total of 4 additional drives. As Bill
said in his reply to this post, they will be seen as hde, hdf, hdg, and
hdh. You have to make sure the controller card that you want can handle
137GB+, as some older ones won't. If the BIOS on your MB does not handle
the 137GB+ drives, some of the add on cards will ask if you want it to
handle all of the drives on your computer. I had one of these on a past
machine, but don't remember the brand of the card. Google would be your
best bet, to find one.

I've seen cards bundled with large drives in the past, when they first
came out, but with all the new MB's that handle them natively, most seem
to be sold separately now. Someone in the thread mentioned Maxtor still
having them bundled, but thought Maxtor was junk. I have six Maxtors at
present, have had no issues with them, and they do come with a three year
warentee. I also have Quantum, Seagate, IBM, and WD drives, and have had
no issues with them either, so it's not a religious thing with me.

I have Linux distros booting from hda, hdc, and hdg at present. Like you,
I have win98SE, & Win2K on there own drive, but I have it, as all my
drives, in a removable drive bay, presently at hde. Having the Windows
drive as anything but hda, and having hda be a Linux drive, means the
grub/lilo bootloader is installed in the MBR of the linux drive, and can't
be overwritten by Windows repairs. My grub stanza for windows, includes
two drive remap lines, and windows boots fine, from hde.

HTH ;-)

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imotgm