Help Gigabyte GA7N400 Pro 2 MOBO

Friend of mine is building a new PC. He has the following components:
Mobo Gigabyte GA7N400 Pro 2
1 x 160 GB HDD
1 x CD Rom
1 x CD Rewriter
1 x DVD Rewriter
There are four IDE connectors on MOBO, can he use one device on each IDE
connector. The manual says in order to use IDE 3 & 3 it must be set up in
RAID or ATA133. Not sure about this, I thought that RAID was for use with
multiple HDD's.
Alternatively would he set up master/slaves and just use IDE 1 & 2.
If this is the way to go, what would be the best configuration for his
drives.
Also, there are two connectors from the PSU labelled SATA, what are these
used for. And there are two short red cables for serial ATA, what are theses
used for.
Appreciate any help.
TIA

 

In the bios you can set raid mode to either "Raid" or "ATA" . If he wants to
attach drives and use them as normal (ie. not raid) then set it to ATA.
Doing this you can have 7 separate hard drives and your cd-rom.
The SATA connectors on the PSU are power for Serial hard drives, they don't
have an IDE connector, just a thin usb-style cable. They are faster than
IDE.


Matt

 

Connect the HDD to IDE1. Connect the CD and DVD rewriters to IDE2. Do not
use the CD rom.

 

Sata psu connectors and red cables are for Sata drives, there will also be a
connector (2) on the mobo for these cables. There may be a jumper on the
mobo to disable the sata connectors, if not in use, by default the jumper
may be set to 'active'
All the above should be in your mobo book.