Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
On every SATA RAID controller I've had, they have always given stern warnings about using IDE-SATA adapters for anything except temporary use.
Why is that? BTW, I'm not using RAID for anything. I know at the HighPoint site it said that adapter is not supported on ICH5R controllers, and that's what mine is, but, it's being used as an ICH5, no RAID. I don't know if that means anything or not. I would think they'd support about the most prevelant/popular controller out there, or was at least.
What about getting a simple IDE controller and using that? They are cheap to get as you won't need one for RAID, so it will set you back a little money and a PCI slot. Just a thought for an alternative.
I have some controller cards, I wanted to avoid that because I hate having to "shell out more IRQ's" and deal with more IDE cables. :roll: I also have SATA controller cards which is what I'd do over that of an IDE card if I had to go with a card since they're of course much easier to manage cable wise.
Also, SATA optical drives are so cheap right now, you could get a
SATA Lightscribe burner for $34 (there are cheaper ones--I just like this one), and then you just have one IDE drive to worry about.
I wanted SATA DVD-ROM and DVD-RW drives, the problem is I could not find one that had
all top ratings. Every one I could find that had ratings had numerous DOA and other strange issues. Even that one you linked to has a bunch of bad ratings on the first page (sorted by lowest rating first:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...eoOnlyMark=False&Page= ). %'age wise that's not that bad, almost 500 ratings @ an average of 4 stars, but still a lot of issues. Evidently they are either "too new" or all plagued with flaky firmware. That's why I got the Asus DRW-1608P3S (which is flashed to a Pioneer 111L), it had
all top remarks at the time I bought it, even better than the 111L (maybe I should have left it a 1608P3S, LOL, :roll
, and the Asus DVD-E616A2 which also had all great reviews. It also has the largest buffer I've ever seen on a ROM drive,
2mb, and ATA100. It's not that I'm particularly big on Asus drives, that's just the way it happened to turn out.
They are both new.
I'm still looking though for new SATA DVD burners and watching the ratings and reviews. Looks like Blu-Ray are the only ones with a decent buffer and all good reviews, but too expensive right now. FAIK that technology could flake-out like other DVD formats.
The adapters I have are "supposed" to work with IDE HD's, so I guess that's what I will try next. If the HD's work ok, then.....ok. But it would be nice to find an adapter that will work with any IDE drive.
I had a POS Plextor 712SA that crapped out on me. (They're crap now made by someone else and NOT what they used to be in the 708 days). The one good thing about it, is it had a SATA adapter on it, it was not a true SATA drive but bridged. I removed it, and that adapter was awesome and worked for everything. Where is it now? Who knows!! Lost the SOB. :disgust: I tend to lose things a lot.
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