On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
  Isn't that what used to be called a
'hardcard'? I've certainly seen ST506
 controllers on a frame with a 3.5" ST506 drive, the whole thing plugging
 into an ISA slot. I would be very suprised if it was never done with IDE
 drives... 
Tony, Quantum built a Hardcard EZ with an inbuilt IDE card and 127mb IDE
drive.  It used cable selection to identify the drive.
                                                 - don