new mobo ide specifications

i'm looking at buying a new motherboard but the ide controller worries me. It says it's a t18 ide controller and can support 4 ultra dma 133/100 devices or 2 ultra dma 100/66 devices.

I would be hooking in 2 hardrives and 2 optical drives all of which are fairly new and i beleive are ata 100 or higher. Would this mean i'd be able to hook it all in or will this mobo only support 2 of these devices?

for more details on teh board please check it out here:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1212581&CatId=1533

advice would be great.

thanks

Should be fine, as long as they aren't too old. If you are buying any new hdd's get SATA though, less cable clutter and has their own plugs. Either way though, you should be able to put two devices on each ide channel, for a total of 4.

Karsh i saw you posted in another post that pcchips is a cheapo brand. I think it was in one about building a computer. What is wrong with them? What would be a couple good brands to go with. asus and abit i know are pretty popular but i'm looking for a socket t with support for agp 8x and both kinds of memory ddr2 and ddr sine i upgrade pretty slowly as i get money.

So far this pc chips one is the only one i can find that will work.

i need agp support so that limits me to 915p-a boards and i need the ide support more than SATA because i may eventually need sata but i have a pair of large ide HDDs.

i need to support 2 optical drives and 2 IDE Hdd's and i want the ability to go to ddr2 but i can't afford to upgrade right away. I also like the idea of having the PCIe for eventually hooking up another video card and geting a good 4 monitors going on.

if you can find anthing with all these specifications let me know.

otherwise i think i'm just going to have to hope pc chips isn't oo much of a cheapo brand.

In all likelihood you won't have any problems. Its just if 99% of abit boards have no problem, while 94% of pcchips have no problem, the difference shows up on forums like this. It still leaves the majority of mobos with no problems though.