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Hooking up a SATA DVD burner to an IDE cable?

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TWoe

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Ok I apologize if this problem has already been posted, I'm a newbie, have mercy! My IDE DVD burner went out, so I ordered a new one, not realizing it was a SATA. So then I find out SATA is the new standard and you can't even find IDE burners anymore. Fine, then I'll just get a converter. So I got an IDE to SATA converter, but the IDE cable has a female end and so does the converter. I found 40 to 40 pin IDE male to male connectors but my IDE cable is one of the 80 pin wire cables with the connection looking like it's 39 pins since the middle hole is blocked. So what do I do to make this work? Do they make a 39 to 40 pin male to male connector?
I suppose I could take everything back and just get a PCI SATA card, but how do I find out if my mobo supports SATA?
 
Sounds like a mess. Just exchange or buy an IDE version. There are all kinds still available. Your local Frys Electronics carries some too.
 
Yeah it's a mess, We don't have a Frys Electronics around here. We have Micro Center and Best Buy, they only carry SATA drives. I looked on Amazon and the IDE DVD burners they have are pretty pricey. That's why I got the cheapo SATA burner off of Tiger Direct for $17(they don't carry IDE either). No-one around here seems to have IDE anymore. It's kind of like since SATA became the new standard then the powers that be decided that that's what we the public are going to buy! So if I decide to return my IDE to SATA convertor and get the PCI SATA card, how do I go about figuring if my mobo supports SATA?
 
In my frustration with trying to solve the other problem, I overlooked the mobo's possibility of SATA support. I have an ASUS A7V600-X. I did some searching around just now and found my user guide for the mobo. Looks like it does support SATA, there are 2 SATA ports on the mobo, but now I'm guessing I'll have to go in and do something with the bios? I feel stupid for asking this but the user guide says mobo supports SATA hard drives, so does that mean you can plug in ANY SATA device to those ports? Again, newbie here, I'm not a techie geek, so therefore some of these questions are probably obvious to others but not to me.
 
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TWoe said:
I have an ASUS A7V600-X. I did some searching around just now and found my user guide for the mobo. Looks like it does support SATA, there are 2 SATA ports on the mobo, but now I'm guessing I'll have to go in and do something with the bios? I feel stupid for asking this but the user guide says mobo supports SATA hard drives, so does that mean you can plug in ANY SATA device to those ports?
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In my opinion, BIOS should detect the drive just fine. Connect the drive and it will be detected without any problem.Try it.
 
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