Imagine my surprise and dismay when DVDA on my shiny new Core-2 Duo installation with SATA raid 0 and SATA DVD burner failed to recognize the burner. I went through everything I could think of, even scrubbing the installation to bare metal and starting all over again. All to no avail, DVDA just doesn't see the drive.
The answer came today, in a posting on CD freaks:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Will-s-ATA-take-definitely-the-place-of-IDE.html
Will s-ATA take definitely the place of IDE?
It is not a secret that all recently manufactured mainboards have only one IDE slot, and this is not really a good news for people with a big stash of burners. In fact, the main issue related with s-ATA controllers is that they are suited purposely to manage hard disk drives (HDD), and not burners.
What is the problem? Simple: optical drives requires ATAPI protocols to work correctly, whereas HDD doesn't need ATAPI at all. So, controller manufacturers are not implementing these protocols in their hardwares. Consequently, s-ATA controllers have an excellent performance with HDDs but can have a lot of problems to work with optical drives.
Besides a less chaotic cabling, however, currently s-ATA optical drives have no real advantages compared to IDE ones. An example can be found on an article published at The Inquirer, in which Asus DRW-1814BLT s-ATA burner was compared with an IDE drive.
Thanks to GristyMcFisty for letting us know about this news.
Guess it's back to IDE for my burner.
The answer came today, in a posting on CD freaks:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Will-s-ATA-take-definitely-the-place-of-IDE.html
Will s-ATA take definitely the place of IDE?
It is not a secret that all recently manufactured mainboards have only one IDE slot, and this is not really a good news for people with a big stash of burners. In fact, the main issue related with s-ATA controllers is that they are suited purposely to manage hard disk drives (HDD), and not burners.
What is the problem? Simple: optical drives requires ATAPI protocols to work correctly, whereas HDD doesn't need ATAPI at all. So, controller manufacturers are not implementing these protocols in their hardwares. Consequently, s-ATA controllers have an excellent performance with HDDs but can have a lot of problems to work with optical drives.
Besides a less chaotic cabling, however, currently s-ATA optical drives have no real advantages compared to IDE ones. An example can be found on an article published at The Inquirer, in which Asus DRW-1814BLT s-ATA burner was compared with an IDE drive.
Thanks to GristyMcFisty for letting us know about this news.
Guess it's back to IDE for my burner.