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| SATA Optical Drive + IDE-to-SATA Adapter, Bootable Discs? So apparently I'm faced with an issue that I never thought would be one, although I suppose in retrospect, I shouldn't be surprised.
Anyway, I've noticed that while it's still possible to purchase IDE DVD Burners, most offerings I see are SATA. I also notice that I can't seem to find an IDE Bluray Burner anywhere. This is probably not a problem for most PCs, but I have some older PCs that don't have any SATA ports.
So I'm hoping someone here has tried this. If I purchase an IDE-to-SATA adapter, along with an SATA optical drive, will I be able to boot from discs placed in the drive? |
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1 edit | You know that the costs would be the same to add an PCI based SATA controller to your system? I'd rather do it that way than 'MacGuiver' an optical drive.
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It should be boot-able, you just need to set the drive as primary in the bios.
Just remember you will be going IDE speed. |
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I'm curious why you want to add Bluray burners to systems so old they have no SATA ports. Do you intend to watch movies? or is this for data backup?
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said by XT0RT:You know that it would the costs would be the same to add an PCI based SATA controller to your system? I'd rather do it that way than 'MacGuiver' an optical drive.
I did consider this possibility, but it seems many of them have compatibility problems either with Linux or an older BIOS. More importantly, I haven't been able to find any that say for absolute certain will support booting from discs. If I can't boot from a CD or DVD then it would be useless for my purposes.
said by pog:I'm curious why you want to add Bluray burners to systems so old they have no SATA ports. Do you intend to watch movies? or is this for data backup?
I never said that I wished to add Bluray burners to a system lacking SATA ports. I mentioned them because it seems the writing may be on the wall with regard to the availability of IDE DVD Burners in a few years.
I'm asking because I wonder if this means I should purchase a few IDE DVD Burners before they get hard to find.
I do have an older P2/P3 Slot 1 based system lying around. If you are wondering why I don't just pitch it, it has sentimental value to me. It's the first PC I ever assembled, although as you might expect, I have performed upgrades on it.
It also has sufficient processing power for certain tasks, although I would never consider using it as a main, client system. It's also better than most slot 1 boards in that I could put in dual CPUs and 2GB of RAM, so I think it may still have some life left in it.
What I will probably end up doing is purchasing an IDE DVD Burner for this system since the CDRW drive in it is dead. I guess I'm just wondering what I would do if I can't purchase IDE DVD Burners anymore, yet the trickier part is that I must have boot support (or else, how will I ever install the OS?). |
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| said by benc:I never said that I wished to add Bluray burners to a system lacking SATA ports. Sorry, that's what I thought you meant when mentioning blurays.
I guess I'm just wondering what I would do if I can't purchase IDE DVD Burners anymore, yet the trickier part is that I must have boot support (or else, how will I ever install the OS?).
One way to prep a hard drive with XP, for eg, is to use XP's makelocalsource option in the 32-bit installer
If the PC's BIOS supports booting SCSI or other "add-on" card, you should be able to use a PCI SATA controller card to boot your SATA opticals.
I have also used IDE-to-SATA adapters but this was a number of years ago and I had poor results. Newer models might do better. If you want to experiment with these, just make sure to get one that supports SATA drive to IDE port communication... or a bidirectional unit that works either way.
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