Question 1

The description says "max drive capacity up to 132Gb"
This can't be right can it?
It must work up to at least 500Gb I would think.

Accepted Answer

Sorry, I don't know its capacity.

I bought this as protection against obsolescence on a new build, to have a compatible interface for accessing old IDE drives.

The price was okay, and it's protection is priceless the way Intel and Microsoft are killing off old equipment.

Question 2

Does it have a driver for windows 7 64 bit?

Accepted Answer

Yes I am using it on a 64 bit machine dual booting  win 7 and Ubuntu     No problems

Question 3

Does this support CD drives?? or only hard drives?

Accepted Answer

That was the very reason I purchased it.  i had bought a new motherboard that only had SATA ports - that didn't support IDE.  I wanted to use my old IDE cd/dvd rom drives so bought this card.  It works fine.  Just make sure you set the drive correctly as primary or secondary, depending which it is - as in any other ide set up (It would be primary if you only have one drive on the cable and it would be at the end of the cable.  The card can handle up to 4 ide devices, 2 primary and 2 secondary. Hope this helps

Question 4

Is this PowerPC or Mac OS X compatible?

Accepted Answer

The card fits into an old PCI or PCI-x (PCI extended) desktop motherboard expansion slot. It will not fit into a modern PCTe (PCI express slot. Drivers are available for Windows versions from 2000 to 7 and for linux. It has 2 IDE connectors. I am not familiar with Mac Power PC expansion slots, but there are no Apple drivers so I would advise, No, it's not campatible.

Question 5

Is this card compatable with gigabyte mb 6 core running win7?

Accepted Answer

I have a gigabyte mother board in my machine - it's about five years old, running a dual-core AMD processor.  My operating system is Linux, but I have a virtual Windows 7 installed and the mouse works with both Linux and the virtual Windows.  The specs for the mouse indicate it's compatible with Windows 10, 8, and 7, and since it works on my mobo, I believe it will work with your configuration.

Brand	StarTech.com
Model	PCIIDE2

Type	PCI to IDE Card
Internal Ports	2 - IDE (40 Pin; EIDE/PATA) Male
Standard	ATA/ATAPI-6
Data Transfer Rate	133 MBytes/sec
Operating Systems Supported	Windows 98SE/ ME/ 2000/ XP (32/64-bit)/ Server 2008 R2/ Vista (32/64-bit)/ 7 (32/64-bit)/ 8 (32/64-bit) Linux
Specifications	Bus Type: PCI / PCI-X (5 / 3.3V) Card Type: Standard Profile Chipset ID: ITE - IT8212F Connector Type(s): 1 - PCI / PCI-X (Universal 3.3 & 5V; 32-bit) Male LBA support: 28-bit Max Drive Capacity: Up to 132 GB

Dimensions	4.7" x 0.7" x 3.3" (LXWXH)
Weight	2.6 oz.

StarTech.com 2 Port PCI IDE Controller Adapter Card Model PCIIDE2

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