drsmith Posted May 6, 2008 Posted May 6, 2008 In order to connect a SATA optical drive (LG Blu-Ray/HD-DVD combo drive) to an IDE motherboard connector I used the following Sunix bridge, http://www.sunix-gmbh.de/smio/product/sata/sabr2000hv.htm Unfortunately the LG combo drive is not showing up under device manager in either XP or Vista. I did consider a PCI SATA card but the only PCI slot I have available is directly under the Nvidia 8600GTS's heat sink. UPDATE 11pm WST: I've got the LG drive working by plugging it directly into a SATA port on the motherboard. I now have two internal HDD's connected to the bridge but the connections are not particurally firm and any slight movement of the cables (from putting on the case side panel for example) results in the two hard drives being lost to device manager. A PCI based solution must be better than this if for no other reason than it could not be any worse.
drsmith Posted May 13, 2008 Author Posted May 13, 2008 Having had the bridge installed for close to a week I have had no further problems with the two HDD's connected to it not being recognised on bootup. I am still however of the belief that in the absence of other factors a PCI card solution is likely to be better on the basis that connection to the MB via a PCI slot and a screw into the case would be much more secure and rigid than connection by the MB's IDE slot alone. The latter is also not a particurally rigid connection.
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