Well, I've got USB going fine on the new card, the system boots fine with just the IDE Controller Card installed, gotta try the three drives previously installed to that later on tonight.

I did hook up the top HDD in the double bracket I snagged out of the DA . The click of death has been isolated to the first Western Digital HDD to ever give me a problem.

So it goes . . . :-/

To be continued . . .