New Motherboards and old Hard drives

[adah101]

I am in the process of upgrading a computer for someone (as cheaply as possible) who currently has three old (non-SATA) Hard drives.
It appears that most modern motherboards only seem to have one socket in which to plug older (ATA?) drives, and since there is a limit of two drives per socket, and of those one must be used for a CD or DVD drive, it appears impossible to plug in more than one Hard Drive.
Are there any inexpensive Socket 775 Motherboards available that still have two ATA sockets, or there another obvious solution that I am overlooking?

Thanks for any help.

[Capellone]

it's hard to find a 775 motherboard with two ATA sockets and compatible with modern cpu
you should buy an ATA controller pci card, it's cheap and can be used in whatever motherboard.
Asrock produces some good and inexpensives motherboards: www.asrock.com

[havanalocobandicoot]

You can always put 2 hard disks into 2 external USB 2.0 box. I would prefer this solution.
Putting an hard disk and an optical drive, you must be sure that tha IDE cable is as long as you need between master and slave sockets.