I've had no problems with a sata to ide adapter on my box. Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com
No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 7 Apr 2013 12:17, "Rob Malpass" <li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all**** > > ** ** > > Another question demonstrating how out of date my knowledge is…**** > > ** ** > > Just bought a new mobo but forgot that the case into which I’m putting it > has a perfectly working DVD-ROM ide drive. The mobo has no such legacy > connector. To be honest, I don’t particularly need the dvd drive and have > installed the os from a pen drive but to get the DVD back up again - what’s > the best approach here?**** > > 1) Get a sata dvd drive – slightly defeating the object!**** > > 2) Get an IDE controller card. If so, anyone know how easily these > things integrate with Linux? Being so low level I’d assume it would work > “out of the box” but you never know.**** > > 3) I’ve seen IDE to SATA adapters for about 7UKP but as this is parallel > to serial (isn’t it?) would there not be driver issues here?**** > > 4) Get an IDE to USB adapter – but I can’t see a usb socket on my new mobo > so presumably the data cable would have to come outside the case to connect > to a usb socket wouldn’t it?**** > > ** ** > > Sorry this is all a bit old hat for most of you – but I’m loathe to chuck > away perfectly working hardware.**** > > ** ** > > Cheers**** > > Rob**** > > ** ** > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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