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 -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz