Grandcheapskate
Veteran Member
Has anyone been using a SATA-IDE bridge board to connect a SATA device to a motherboard IDE port?
I tried one today, connecting a new SATA DVD rewriter to the motherboard secondary port as master (no slave). THis replaced an existing DVD rewriter. When I fired up the PC (Win XP), it identified the DVD player but it was marked with that little yellow exclamation point. The problem was stated as "device will not start". The player did get power (the door would open and close).
I realized after connecting everything up there was no way to indicate whether the device was a master or slave on either the board or the SATA device (obviously). There is one jumper on the board but no documentation. Then I wondered whether it only works with hard drives.
Anyone familiar with these?
Thanks...Joe
I tried one today, connecting a new SATA DVD rewriter to the motherboard secondary port as master (no slave). THis replaced an existing DVD rewriter. When I fired up the PC (Win XP), it identified the DVD player but it was marked with that little yellow exclamation point. The problem was stated as "device will not start". The player did get power (the door would open and close).
I realized after connecting everything up there was no way to indicate whether the device was a master or slave on either the board or the SATA device (obviously). There is one jumper on the board but no documentation. Then I wondered whether it only works with hard drives.
Anyone familiar with these?
Thanks...Joe