Fedora 8 is out in about a week, and you can download the
last rawhide snapshot and then just update to the final version. Fedora Core 2 is from May of 2004. It hasn't been supported for a long time (in Linux years).
By the way, Fedora certainly supports IDE - every Linux back to 1991 did, as far as I'm aware. It may not support your specific vendor's controller, however.