Dude, you're getting a Dell!

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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited October 2006
    Quick question - do you have a CD/DVD-ROM drive in this machine? Isn't that on an IDE bus?
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited October 2006
    bobman1235 wrote:
    Quick question - do you have a CD/DVD-ROM drive in this machine? Isn't that on an IDE bus?

    Amazingly enough the HD and CD burner are both SATA. It was quite a b*tch getting stuff installed last night since I also had to swap out the power supply due to lack of IDE power connectors. I know the nvidia nforce chipset has an IDE controller, it even shows in device manager. The flat unsoldered/connectorless IDE spot on the motherboard mocks me... :mad:

    It didn't come with a floppy drive either but Dell was nice enough to solder that connector on anyways...
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited October 2006
    Ugh, as if a floppy controller is more used than an IDE controller. That is VERY annoying, I agree.

    Also, I've never even seen SATA optical drives.... neato.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited October 2006
    maybe I shoulda bought two of these instead

    IDE to SATA bridge
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  • jhermance
    jhermance Posts: 214
    edited October 2006
    I was thinking about trying a mac but with dell prices i might just have to go that way.
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