P5AD2-E Premium and her sisters

ok in this amazing board.. i know

the Intel ICH6R South Bridge directly handle the 1 x UltraDMA 100/66/33
& 4 x Serial ATA so there is no loss in speed since they work directly there..

and i know that Silicon Image 3114R RAID controller:which controls
4 x Serial ATA is locating them in bus of pci(not pci-x1) right... so there is a hit in speed if i am using 4 drives in raid 0(right)...

what i don't know is..

ITE IDE RAID controller:which
2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 .. were is this playing..

in the south bridge or in the pci

mmm anyone

this is really nice

The ITE 8212F chip providing the extra P-ATA functionality is not a part of the ICH6 southbridge, that is certain.

The actual connection of the ITE chip to the southbridge presumably is either of vanilla PCI or PCI-E (x1) type. I'd guess that the former is most likely.