Why don't you instead just buy a SATA oriented DVD drive, and save yourself
the hassle and potential problems? And chalk up that DVD drive to a
lesson learned (or maybe you can still return it).

Immortal wrote:
> Recently, I bought a DVD drive that was SATA oriented. However, my
> system's motherboard is PATA oriented, and the PATA connectors can't
> connect to the SATA slots on the back of my new DVD drive.
>
> I need help deciding if I should buy a SATA host adapter for one of my
> empty PCI slots, or instead if I should buy PATA-to-SATA cable
> converters (which would connect to my empty PATA power connectors and
> IDE slots and run SATA cables from them).
>
> If I buy the host adapter, would it be able to work in coexistence with
> the rest of my motherboard, which is completely PATA oriented? And would
> my DVD drive even work if it was hooked up to a host adapter?
>
> Or, could I just buy the PATA-to-SATA cable converters? This seems to
> be the most sensible option, but I'm unsure if the converters would even
> work without a host adapter present.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>
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