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@ Targa
Glad I could be of help.
The P4P800E-Deluxe...the board in my sig ...is a great board. I am sure it will fit your needs nicely.
The Intel chipset ICH5R has 2 ATA100 IDE(PATA) connectors for 4 drives..primary master and slave, secondary master and slave. Yes it is 'only' ATA100..Intel hasn't embraced the ATA133 standard, but many PATA drives are rated at ATA100, and there isn't much realtime difference in speeds, maybe a few seconds here and there unless you have specialized operations that demand maximum speed for extended periods. You can connect an ATA133 drive to the Intel chip, it will just run at ATA100. Optical disc drives are rated at ATA44 at best. The Intel ICH5R also has 2 SATA connectors. They can be used in RAID0 or RAID1.

The on-board Promise controller has 1 ATA133 IDE (PATA) connector(the 'second line' in the promo blurb) for master and slave(no optical discs). It also has 2 SATA connectors that can be used in RAID configs.

I can't say for sure what will happen with the Win98 install. I think you should be able to install the drivers from device manager in Win98 once you enable the controller in BIOS and Win98 detects the new hardware.

Anyways, keep us posted of your progress