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I am going to be getting the Soltek SL-75FRN2 RL motherboard soon:
http://www.soltekusa.com/product/showproduct.php?productid=1050546586
It says it supports:
1 x PCI Bus Master UATA 133/RAID IDE port by Promise Serial ATA RAID controller
It is only one port yet it says it supports raid. How does it do this? If theres only one port then how does it support 2 hard drives? Do I just use a dual device cable?
Thanks!

You have it right. Just use a quality 40-pin/80-conductor ATA66/100/133 dual device IDE ribbon and you're good to go.
Man, that's a really yellow board.

Actually, disregard my previous post... I didn't look very carefully at the specs, and a striped array on a single IDE cable wouldn't be much of a performer anyway.
If your Promise SATA-RAID controller is like mine, you can hook up 2 SATA drives in a striped array or RAID1, and you can attach a SINGLE parallel IDE drive to the traditional UATA IDE port. You can use the parallel drive as part of an array with one of the SATA drives, but you cannot run a multidrive array off the IDE port alone.
Sorry about the confused post above. On my SATA-RAID controller I'm running two SATA drives in a striping array and a single stand-alone 180 GB drive on the controller's traditional IDE port. It's really nice performance all the way around.

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