RE: VIA EPIA motherboards

["Chris Bond" <chris@xxxxxxx>]

> 1) what are the 2 metal boxes in the front half, at the top and in
> the middle?

There holding bits for harddrives, you can have 2x 3.5 drives (right
hand side) and one floppy or 3.5 drive in the middle and at the left
hand size theres space for a cdrom 5 1/4

> 2) does the VIA board come with that PCI riser card? A friend had 
> one round but I don't remember that bit on his. I think that's the
first 
> time I've seen such a thing.

Nope but this case includes a 1u riser for the case and it works.

> 3) Are there many locations to screw in HDs in there? I'm 
> assuming that the 3rd 'bay' on the front right is for a HD given the
> EIDE cable trailing through a hole?

See above theres plenty of holes where they need to be for cables trust
me.

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