Yeah, I think USB2 would be a good fit in this case (my current intentions are with an ATA66 drive).
Here is a
USB-to-IDE kit, but it doesn't clearly state USB2. Plus, it look like it would be used in an external fashion. I would think that I'd only need one cable for an internal connection.
Here is a
USB 2.0 PCI card with an internal connector. I believe that is an "A" connector on the internal side.
My main reason for considering this connection is because the existing system (Dell Dimension XPS D166c, yes a Pentium 166MX) doesn't have USB nor can its BIOS see the 45GB ATA66 drive I'd like to connect to it. Granted, I could pop in a cheap ATA66/100 card and call it a day, but I've got a USB keyboard and mouse ... and I would consider using an all-USB KVM with all of this. With any luck, all of this will be happily running Linux, but that's another story for another day.
Today, I'm just trying to determine if:
USB 2.0 card + USB2-to-IDE internal + USB KVM hopes and dreams <= USB 1.1 card + ATA66/100 PCI + minor inconvenience of hot-swapping USB keyboard/mouse <= ATA66/100 PCI + second keyboard (PS/2) + mouse
Make sense?
-SUO