Maleko Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 As SATA DVD drives have come right down in price, was considering getting some for my PC and removing my IDE ones.My question is do they work like IDE ones when installing windows? As in they just work, cause with connecting them to the SATA controller, as with hard drives, you need the Sata drivers to see them, that the same with DVD drives?Just wanna make sure as I havent installed any yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctirus Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 My question is do they work like IDE ones when installing windows?Yup, no drivers or anything like that, at least not in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 In my experience, several SATA optical drives, no drivers were needed to load and complete windows xp setup. I believe this is because the motherboards are emulating SATA as IDE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleko Posted November 28, 2007 Author Share Posted November 28, 2007 ah ok, coolio, cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 You have to aware of one thing though!!!Not all SATA controllers support SATA ATAPI properly, this is especially true of chipsets such as older SiS, VIA and Promise controllers. Most modern motherboard on-board SATA controllers though usually have no issue. Nonetheless, there's a lot of advantages to running SATA optical drives. I would never be able to run four drives simultaneously without SATA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Indeed, jcarle hits the jackpot here, he’s 100% right, it was what I wanted to post .But why would you replace a good working ATA drive for a SATA one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsposter Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 (edited) When necessary, I run my 'old' IDE DVD combo r/w drives on SATA with the use of a few SATA/IDE paddle card converters.Works great. The coverters I buy all have JM 20330 chipsets. JM makes chipsets to run ATA100/133 to SATA 1.5 and 3.0 channels.However, I also note that SATA-only mobos are few and far between. Usually there is at least one ATA133 connector available. And we all have piles of ATA cables in that box in the basement to go along with those perfectly useable DVD combo drives. Edited November 29, 2007 by newsposter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 But why would you replace a good working ATA drive for a SATA one?Two words - cable management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Expensive, but working ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 However, I also note that SATA-only mobos are few and far between. Usually there is at least one ATA133 connector available.We had to search for our old SCSI cards to put a cdrw in a user's pc, the new PC we have received this year have no IDE connector. There is still a floppy connector though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleko Posted November 29, 2007 Author Share Posted November 29, 2007 the only reason id wanna keep my current ata drive is cause its chipped region free, and i watch all my movies on my comp, surround sound - sounds ace, i know u can flash rom drives, but always a chance of that killing ur drive!the fact SATA drives are same price as ATA drives now makes me wanna change to them.Also, on the note of mobo connectors, we had a new server at work, no floppy connector on board, have to use USB one if needed.Fasing out old connections? maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 (edited) the only reason id wanna keep my current ata drive is cause its chipped region free, and i watch all my movies on my comp, surround sound - sounds ace, i know u can flash rom drives, but always a chance of that killing ur drive!By the way, my four SATA based Pioneer DVR-212Ds are all rip-unlocked and region free. Edited November 29, 2007 by jcarle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleko Posted November 29, 2007 Author Share Posted November 29, 2007 ahh, those were the ones i was looking at getting, did u flash them urswelf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 ahh, those were the ones i was looking at getting, did u flash them urswelf?I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleko Posted November 29, 2007 Author Share Posted November 29, 2007 nice, pm or post a link to the flash u used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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