Can a sata drive work with an ide motherboard?

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I have an older computer that I bought right before sata drives came out. I ordered a dvd/cd burner from the internet. Stupid me didn't even take into consideration if it was an ide drive. It isn't, it is a sata drive and motherboard doesn't support sata, only ide. Is there anyway I can make a sata drive work with a non-sata motherboard? Does anyone sell adapter cables for this? I asked best buy and radio shack, but they don't carry anything like that. I looked on newegg and tigerdirect, but can't seem to find anything, unless I'm missing something. Not only don't I want to go through the hassle of returning it and buying an ide drive, but this drive only cost like $25. The cheapest ide on newegg's site, where I bought this one, is like $50 and I don't think this is worth it for a computer this old. So do some type of adapter cables exist for making this work, and if so, where do I find them?
 
Fatback said:
How do you get that it converts IDE to Sata I have used it before It works fine I wouldn't use it on a hard drive but for a CD/DVD drive it works fine.
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He's right. I have a sata dvd drive that I need to hook up to a motherboard that only has ide connections. I actually need the opposite of what you showed. Does anything like that exist?
 
Fatback said:
How do you get that it converts IDE to Sata I have used it before It works fine I wouldn't use it on a hard drive but for a CD/DVD drive it works fine.
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He has a SATA drive with only IDE ports on the board. Your link is the other way around. A IDE drive to a SATA port.

Something like this would work. It plugs into the back of a SATA drive, with regular IDE and molex conections on the other side to use a IDE port.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812226024
 
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Your right I don't know what I was thinking a thought for sure it was the other way around haha my bad.
 
I hear of too many problems with those SATA converters. I'd suggest getting an SATA controller instead. It might cost a bit more, but you'd probably have slightly better performance (at least out of hard drives) and shouldn't have to worry about drive incompatibility.
 
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