Is there no SATA DVD-RW that supports DVD-ROM?

[Tower]

This seems like a fairly standard request, yet I can't seem to find any SATA drives that support bitsetting the drives to burn to DVD-ROM.

Am I just missing something here? Where are they?

[Kil4Thril]

My Plextors do it, and I'm almost sure the Samsung one would, as the IDE version does it.

[splashtech]

What do you mean by "bitsetting to burn to dvd-rom"?

[Tower]

"Bitsetting" is the act of telling a DVD writer to burn specific media (IE, a DVD+R, for example, to become a DVD-ROM. So you would burn your information to it and it would appear as a DVD-ROM rather than a DVD+R to other devices, like a DVD Player, Computer, etc).

Kil4Thril: I'll have to investigate that more thoroughly. The Samsung website's chart says it doesn't support DVD-ROM writing though, which gives me pause. :confused: