IDE to SATA adapter

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madacoustiks

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First off, my mobo is an IP35 Pro. I bought an ASUS HD-DVD drive (with an IDE interface) that comes with an IDE to SATA adapter. It doesn't show up in My Computer in Vista x64, but it shows up in Intel Matrix Storage Manager and in the BIOS as an SATA device. I have my SATA controller in AHCI mode. When everything was in IDE mode, it worked okay, so I'm thinking it's because of AHCI mode. Is there any kind of driver for the adapter or a workaround to get it installed? I'm not using the IDE port, so I could just put it on there straight IDE, but I'd rather not use that big cable if I didn't have to.
 
Since AHCI didn't come about until SATA, I doubt a device designed around IDE specifications will play nice.

As suggested, try another SATA port that may be running on another controller. Or just use the native IDE cable.

Lo and behold...Microsoft has a knowledge base article on this as well.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928253
 
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