re: DVD Writer connection using USB
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(20200 messages posted)
That's a fascinating solution, and I'd have more faith in it.
On Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 2:08 pm, geek9pm wrote:
>Thanks, Ricer46. Yes, vetter hardwar can make it better. Yet a better USB driver
>made just for XP may solve the problem.
>Rather than buy a better USB device, he may want to consider an economical hardware
>work-around. IDE to SATA. Likely his mobo has a good SATA with XP drivers. If so
>he could check this out:
>
>http://www.whatacable.com/serial-ata-sata-to-ide-converter.aspx
>
The vendor says they have model that will support ATAPI Packet command set.
>Support 48-bit LBA addressing. Support additional ATA command for serial ATA...
yada
>yada. I have not tried it, but maybe I will. I have given up other wise on external
>drives. They say you can run a SATA cable up to three feet from the interface. What
>would you say to that?
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