Lo,
At 13:20 07/04/2013, you wrote:
1) Get a sata dvd drive - slightly defeating the object!
DVD Rewriters start from about £14. This might still be your best option.
True but optical drives from the IDE era seem to be better readers or writers
when i was researching SATA drives on the
Hi all
Another question demonstrating how out of date my knowledge is.
Just bought a new mobo but forgot that the case into which I'm putting it
has a perfectly working DVD-ROM ide drive. The mobo has no such legacy
connector. To be honest, I don't particularly need the dvd drive and
I've had no problems with a sata to ide adapter on my box.
Anton
--
Anton Piatek
http://www.strangeparty.com
No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a
significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
On 7 Apr 2013 12:17, Rob Malpass
1) Get a sata dvd drive - slightly defeating the object!
DVD Rewriters start from about £14. This might still be your best option...
2) Get an IDE controller card. If so, anyone know how easily these
things
integrate with Linux? Being so low level I'd assume it would work out
of
the
