Sata Dvd rom and Burner

colt1911

colt1911

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Due to the fact that my new motherboard will only have one IDE connection for two devices, I'm forced to look at other options. I'm going to build a new system using AMD and the socket AMD2. The board is a Asus M2N32-SLI Premium Vista Edition nForce 590 SLI. It shows the sata ports which read sata 1 and sata 2 , the others are marked Raid 1 and Raid 2. Does this mean that I can't hook my DVD rom and Burner to these? I know that that my two hard drives go to the sata 1 and 2 but I'm lost as to the rest. Please forgive me if this is a dumb question but I've never used sata ports for opticial drives before.
 
Optical drives are strictly Paralell ATA unless you find a usb model. Serial ATA is a totally different type of bus with RAID intended for dual ide hard drives not optical there. You would use two ide hard drives as one in the same manner as running two sata drives as one. Each optical drive has to be run as either master or slave on a regular ide channel either primary or secondary. You're stuck iwth a ribbon cable for the two dvd drives there.
 
PC eye said:
Optical drives are strictly Paralell ATA unless you find a usb model. Serial ATA is a totally different type of bus with RAID intended for dual ide hard drives not optical there.
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Um no...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106057

I see no reason you couldn't use PATA or SATA drives in that system. It shouldn't make any difference. As for RAID, I'm note quite sure what that means, but you shouldn't have a preset RAID on the system. I mean most all boards I've seen let you pick which drives from within the system you wish to RAID. You aren't limited to just two interfaces...

Though another alternative, if you perhaps already have the optical drives, would be an additional IDE controller.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124001
 
Optical CD and DVD drives have been available with the SATA interface for many months, if not a year or so.
 
Thanks for the help I just ordered two Sata Lite-on DVD burners. That should free up some space and allow me to use my IDE for my zip drive and leave me a spare. You guys a great thanks again.
 
Sorry to hijack your thread Colt1911 but figured it kinda works well with your last post. I just purchased a Liteon 20x SATA dvd writer and was wondering if Liteon was dependable. It's my first dvd drive(got it to run my new game). I was also curious if writer was the same as burner.
 
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