SATA cards for CD drives, suggestion ??

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 13:06 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I ordered one of those drives a few weeks ago, and ended up returning 
> it.  Unfortunately, that is the only sata optical drive on the market 
> right now, so as you are finding, support for sata optical drives is 
> somewhat lacking.  I tried it on two different controllers and the bios 
> for one of them worked, the other did not; it would not boot the drive 
> and instead spent a good 60 seconds just screwing with it at boot time 
> before giving up.  Linux also didn't seem to like it and I had read a 
> few posts online talking about special parameters to get it working. 
> Since it looked like it was going to be a pain, and the one controller 
> that I really had to use it on couldn't boot from it, I decided to just 
> return the drive and get the pata version.

Ah, that's bad news then, looks like I won't be able to use my drive
until a year or two at least,the time for SATA chips and drivers to
mature a bit. I never imagined that there were so few SATA devices
outside hard drives, I hope this will change soon so that cheap generic
cards all have flawless optical drive support ASAP.

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Vince, crying...