27 Oct
2016
27 Oct
'16
9:03 p.m.
On 10/27/2016 11:20 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
I got one of those from, er, either amazon or newegg a few years ago, and while it works for a PATA drive, no matter what I did it wouldn't work with an optical drive. despite the customer support people insisting it does work. following their configuration settings didn't help.
likely because optical IDE drives use a completely different command set known as ATAPI, which is scsi based. the adapter I linked is strictly for hard drives
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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz