SATA DVD Drives

[arctirus]

the only reason id wanna keep my current ata drive is cause its chipped region free

Anydvd

[blunden]

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.

Well, they also work fine connected to controllers running in AHCI mode for me. I have only tried a Vista install from it yet though.

[puntoMX]

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.

Well, they also work fine connected to controllers running in AHCI mode for me. I have only tried a Vista install from it yet though.

For XP AHCI will not work with the newer chipsets from Intel, but for Vista it’s no problem indeed...

[Zxian]

For XP AHCI will not work with the newer chipsets from Intel, but for Vista it’s no problem indeed...

I've got both of my systems using RAID mode (which is a version of ACHI) and both installed just fine from the DVR-212D.

[newsposter]

yup, the Pioneer 212D is a most excellent drive and can easily be found for about U$ 35-