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Posted by Dan G on 07/13/06 23:25
PATA controller cards are notorious for not supporting ATAPI devices, very
few of them do. Promise and Highpoint cards will run the burner in PIO in
spite of showing it as DMA, and this is not good.
The same is true of SATA cards, and even onboard SATA controllers. At
present, only chipset-based SATA controllers are fully supporting optical
drives, and mainly Intel-based chipsets. Some will allow fairly normal
reading and writing, but there will be software issues, and problems with
flashing firmware and other utilities that require ATAPI commands.
The best option, by far, is to move all HD's to SATA, and use the onboard
IDE port(s) for opticals.
"AZ Nomad" <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com> wrote in message
news:slrnebd8ta.ujl.aznomad@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net...
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:14:22 -0700, Daniel Prince <neutrino1@comcast.net>
wrote:
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>
> >Is anyone using a PATA CD/DVD drive with a SATA controller and
> >converter? I did a Google newsgroup search and I found some
> >messages that seemed to imply that it should work with a Silicon
> >Image SATA controller and converter.
>
> >I would like to know if anyone had actually done it and how well it
> >worked. If it worked well, what model of controller and adapter did
> >you use? Thank you in advance for all replies.
>
> If you have a PCI bus computer and no PATA controllers available then
> you ought to simply get a PATA card. They can be had for around ten
> bucks on ebay.
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