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Originally posted by sailor420
... If it bugs you anyways, get an PCI IDE controller and drop it in the box. It should still be cheaper than building a box from scratch.
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I took a crappy P2 450 system through in an IDE controller card, a 120G drive, ethernet, and I left the video card, memory and cd-rom. I formatted the drive fat 32 (so I can easily toss it into a win machine) and run hacked up knoppix for ssh and samba. There's a slight delay when accessing the machine when its sleeping (the cd has to spin up), but it works pretty well otherwise. I have it running in the closet. I've only had to boot it twice but since the outlet near the closet is nowhere near my pc, I had to string 3 kvm cables together to changes some bios settings.