Serial ATA CD-Rom Drives? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Cliff on Thursday January 8, 2004 @05:50AM from the when-will-the-market-catch-on dept.

OutRigged asks: "With Serial ATA hard drives starting to go mainstream, and being almost equal in price to their parallel equivalents, one would think we'd have Serial ATA CD-ROM drives by now. Yet wherever I look, all I see are PATA based CD-ROM drives. It's obvious that an optical drive will benefit little, if at all from using SATA, but why not switch for the sake of the cable size? CD-ROM drives are usually at the top of the case, and with the 1m limit in length, along with the small size of the cables, I see no reason not to use a Serial ATA interface in a CD-ROM drive."

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Re:F*** that! by Paladin128 · 2004-01-08 07:30 · Score: 0, Redundant

From the abit website you linked to:

* Note: Compatible with SATA controller of Silicon Image on motherboard only!

And that refers to using it on ATAPI devices. It's fine for hard drives on ANY SATA controller, but only on abit mobos with the SI controller.

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