I would not recommend using max blast. It's drive overlay software. Drive overlay software fakes your computer's BIOS into thinking a smaller drive is there than is actually there. It works well in theory, but they cause more problems than they're worth normally. When they work, they're alright, but if you have a problem, you can't take your drive out and plug it into another machine and read the files. You can only access the hard drive if you boot from it (or if it's a secondary drive, you can only access it if you boot from your primary drive, which is the one with the drive overlay software on it). In either case, if you ever have problems with your computer and need to recover files, there's very little hope.
I bought an 80 gig maxtor a month ago or so, and the retail version came with a ata133 card (really just a renamed promise controller). I had problems with that (i.e. my hard drive lost it's format after a week), but that turned out to be a problem with the card's bios and ntfs. After updating, using promise's bios, everything worked fine.
I would definitely recommend purchasing the card in your case. It's fast, and it gives you two more ide channels (which lets you have four more devices, or more ideally, lets you run each device off it's own channel). Anyway, good luck with whatever you decide, but i'd definitely recommend deciding againt the drive overlay.
Hope this helps a little.
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