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new motherboard has no IDE support

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GunsMadeAmericaFree

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I just installed my new Biostar motherboard, and realized it doesn't support IDE. This means after my upgrade, my favorite IDE DVD-ROM drive is now "dead in the water".

The IDE DVD drive is a BENQ model that I had verified as non-riplocked before purchasing. I do a lot of backing up DVD movies and shows to my hard drive, and had increasingly run into riplocked DVD drives - that is, drives that the manufacturers had artificially slowed down for doing any sort of ripping, often to double speed.

My kids put their games in the other 2 DVD drives, but I keep this one open so that I can just pop a movie/show in there without having to worry about game disks.

Here's my question:

Would I be better off buying an IDE PCI card for about $18 so that I can continue to use the old Benq DVD-ROM drive, or does anyone know of a sturdy, non-riplocked SATA DVD drive I should replace it with? Since the drive is about 5 or 6 years old, I do worry some about it failing, eventually.... I'm open to suggestions, and am having trouble making my mind up on this one.

Thanks!
 
If you know how to test to confirm the absence of Riplock, let me know and I'll verify how my drive functions.[/QUOTE]

If your drive doesn't have riplock, it will rip most movies in about 9 minutes, like my roughly 6 year old IDE BenQ DVD-ROM drive. I purchased 3 of them after "upgrading" to a Sony DVDRW drive, and having my average movie ripping speed increase from 9 minutes to about 17 minutes. Some upgrade!

CDfreaks and other websites used to regularly post updates about every new DVD burner drive, but they don't seem to any more. They used to have a good database showing what drives were and were not riplocked. I'm guessing the RIAA & Hollywood studies have probably prevailed now in making sure ALL of the new drives out there are riplocked.

As I said, I purchased 3 of these BenQ IDE DVD-ROM drives, once I had verified that they are non-riplocked. However, I either lost 2 of them, or else 1 or 2 are in a box somewhere, after we moved last year. If I had 2 of the drives sitting up on the shelf, my decision would be easy - IDE PCI card. With the two extra drives, it would probably be 10 years before they would all break or wear out. However, since I can't find the spares, & they may be gone, perhaps I could be talked into buying a riplocked drive - if it is absolutely confirmed that updating to a non-riplocked firmware can be done.

I've never updated drive firmware, mostly because I've worried that doing so might be detectable on the anti copy stuff on the DVD's, and might somehow cause corruption on my resulting rips.
 
You can also buy an adapter that can convert your IDE drive to SATA for around $10. Just another option.
 
there are motherboards that don't have ide ports?

edit: wow, guess so.

could also get an external enclosure and run it off usb
 
That's what I would do. Get one that includes FW. There are at least a couple advantages. You can use the enclosure with different computers including notebooks/netbooks when/if needed plus if you have a lot of DvD/CDs, you can rip them concurrently (use the drive in the enclosure for the more protected/difficult media). Works for me.
 
Zap said:
You can also buy an adapter that can convert your IDE drive to SATA for around $10. Just another option.
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Hmm. I am going to resist putting the IDE drive in an external enclosure, even though I have one sitting on the shelf. The $10 adapter seems interesting. How dependable is it?

I have since found this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827135204

Which has been verified by a number of folks as being one of just a few newer drives out there that is NOT riplocked at all. $20 shipped is tempting as well, and I may go for it.
 
yah i used an old dead external drive and set the drive on the dead husk of an enclosure. that is my pata setup.
 
I don't think the riplock is to prevent ripping - I thought they just added so that the DVD drives didn't spin so fast when watching movies (to keep it quiet). I've had success with a SATA to IDE adapter - there good to have around to easily connect old drives.
 
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