Help with adding drives

[proffate]

My case has room for four external drives. I'm currently using two, for a CD R/RW and a DVD R+RW. I also have DVD and CD drives left over from my old computer that I'd like to install.

Question: Is there a way to run four drives off an Asus A7N8X motherboard? And if so, how do you connect them?

I'd appreciate it if one of you hardware pros could explain or, even better, point me to a website that does so. Thanks.

 

[AWS]

You can only install 2 drives per IDE channel. Motherboards have 2 IDE channels so you can only connect 2 drives to each. The only solution would be to add a PCI controller card and connect the 2 drives to it.
If your motherboard has raid functionality then you could connect your hard drives to the raid controller and configure a raid array and then connect your 2 other drives to the onboard IDE controller.