Need computer help, ide to sata

[shootist16]

My dvd burner crapped out. I ordered a new one from newegg. It is sata, which my old motherboard doesn't support. I got the sata power supply adapter cord, which works fine. I need something to convert plug into my ide ribbon that will be sata on the other end. What exactly do I need?

 

[phatch]

Something like this: http://www.cooldrives.com/satoidecofor.html It says it's for hard drives though I think it should work for DVD as well.

 

[Bob W]

I gotta ask, why didn't you buy an IDE drive? Even though the trend is moving away from IDE to SATA, there are still plenty of the old-style drives on the market. Newegg has many in stock, and the prices are about the same as SATA drives.

There are cable adaptors on the market for using older IDE drives on new SATA motherboards, but they cost about a third as much as a new drive, and I don't know if they work in reverse or not.

Here's one example:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SIL3611&cat=CBL

Good Luck!

 

[Bob W]

Something like this: http://www.cooldrives.com/satoidecofor.html It says it's for hard drives though I think it should work for DVD as well.

An interesting device that I hadn't seen before. But it costs almost as much as a new drive...

 

[shootist16]

I ended up returning it and ordering an ide drive. I shouldve done more checking before I ordered.

 

[Bob W]

That's how I would have solved that one too.

Sorry I can't recommend a particular model. I've bought two LiteOn DVD/CD-RW drives recently that I'm very happy with, but they are SATA. I also bought a third LiteOn (a non-RW drive) that I replaced with a Sony because the LiteOn was too noisy. So you never can tell...

 

[kuro]

I had the opposite problem. I needed to run an old IDE dvd-rom drive (I wanted it because it would rip Wii games) on a motherboard that only supported sATA. So, I looked at online reviews and bought an sATA to IDE converter (they supposedly work both ways). After installing it, my system wouldn't boot. I read up and found out that Vista isn't fond of the converters.

I ended up getting an external hard drive enclosure that converted the dvd-rom drive to a usb device and using it as such.

 

[shootist16]

Put my IDE drive in last night. Works fine.

 

[Bob W]

I needed to run an old IDE dvd-rom drive (I wanted it because it would rip Wii games) on a motherboard that only supported sATA.

Just an FYI, there are motherboards available that support both IDE and SATA devices. The new low-end board I just built on had support for two of each, and the higher-end board I used last year supports three or four IDE and five SATA devices.

Put my IDE drive in last night. Works fine.

That's fast!