Can you put an SATA adapter on CD drives?

[mrman3k]

I was wondering if there are any problems if you put an SATA adapter on IDE CDRW drives? For my future system it doesnt sound like SATA CDRW drives are being made, so I was thinking of using the adapter to go along with the hard drives.

 

[LostHiWay]

hmmm..good question. I'd like to know as well

 

[corkyg]

One way to find out.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Someone said that SATA supports ATAPI devices the same as parallel ATA, so an adapter should work fine. I have no idea why nobody is publicly planning to make SATA optical devices. They certainly won't get much benefit from the speed increase, but neither will hard drives; it's the cabling that we want right away.

 

[compudog]

Yeah! I'd love to get rid of the big ribbon (or thick rounded) cable and got SATA on my optical drives.

 

[mrman3k]

The main reason I like SATA is the ribbon cable, there wont really be a speed difference as far as transfer and seek rates are concerned.

 

[merlocka]

ya, we need SATA everything, and we need motherboards with 6 SATA connectors, and we need it NOW dasmit. Heck, i'd even go for a SATA floppy to get rid of the ribbon connector.

 

[mrman3k]

I would go with an SATA floppy. I just want them to get rid of all ribbon cables in the comp.

 

[PCMarine]

Originally posted by: mrman3k
I would go with an SATA floppy. I just want them to get rid of all ribbon cables in the comp.

Count me in too