Trouble with 160GB SATA Drive

Ok I purchased a Samsung SH-S183 18x DVD±RW Lightscribe DVD Burner on Ebay, but I just noticed it was SATA. Is this going to be a problem for me? Will I still be able to use the DVD-Burner? The specs are here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=350013185740&_trksid=p3984.cWON.m313.lVI

ALso, can someone suggest me a SATA II PCI Adapter so I may use SATA II and have more Sata inputs.

Gosh Darn it, it's supposed to be confusing ...it's a computer...., Right.....?

I think that decimal mathematics are being used to describe binary devices in this case. It makes sense to present it to us (the customer) in this way. The other alternative is the confusion of this thread.

Still, 100 times 1 GB is a hundred Gigabytes, hard to argue with that, is it not?

Face it, if we all understood that 4GB equals 2 to the 32nd power, then everybody would quit asking "why doesn't XP home recognize all of the 4GB of RAM I just installed". So where's the fun in that?

Can anyone suggest?

To Be Fixed..or not be Fixed....That is the question....

I'm not exactly sure where this thread is, (as to which problems are/aren't solved), so I'm not exactly sure what to suggest.
However, to use a SATA drive as volume storage, just set the BIOS to "Configure SATA as IDE". XP will configure it as a volume automatically. As to the DVD drive I don't know if that will operate as IDE. The PCI to SATA card is a natty issue, since opinions on that type of card are like lightning and never really strike twice in the same place. I've wimped out on the issue, as I don't use RAID, just run as IDE and operate the extra drives as volumes. Every drive I've stuffed in has worked this way. The only problem I had was when I tried to Install Windows with all the drives connected. The BIOS "auto-configured" itself to SATA RAID. I simply disconnected the extra drives, restarted the PC, and plugged the extra drive in after the OS install. Perfect.

If I think I may have something that might be hampering the computer from recognizing the drive, (IE, MBR or bad format, or bad partition) I use a drive scrubbing program to bring the drive back to "out of the box" condition, and start over.

You really needed a suggestion before this, and I would have said; "don't buy a SATA optical drive". A DVD burner can't possibly transfer anywhere near as much information as the SATA interface can transmit. Plus, what do you do with the perfectly good IDE controllers on your mobo?

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