Recently, we covered an issue with connecting Zip drives that mentioned Master and Slave positions on an IDE/ATAPI bus. Essentially, if two devices are on the same bus; one must be designated the ...

This is a “why didn’t I think of that?” idea. [Alec] needed a way to connect an IDE DVD drive using USB. Rather than order a connector he pulled the circuit board out of an old US… ...

The computer has no IDE connections, so I hooked up an IDE controller card in order to use an IDE DVD drive. But I can't get the machine to boot when anything is hooked to this card.

[Alec] needed a way to connect an IDE DVD drive using USB. Rather than order a connector he pulled the circuit board out of an old USB hard drive enclosure and connected to his DVD drive.

Most drives have the spinup noise from hell, it's nearly impossible to get away from that, at least on the drives I've used.<P>I currently run a Pioneer 105-S slot loader in my main rig.

We are seeking confirmation of an odd report from MacFixIt reader J. Dugan, who reports that the presence of an internal Maxtor IDE drive was the culprit behind damaged DVDs. "I have a Power Mac ...

Their drives will complement current SATA offerings from Plextor, but they may not carry the same hefty price premiums: a Lite-On SATA combo drive listed on Newegg has a price tag of just $28.49 ...

GamePC maakt ons blij met een review van de 16 speed IDE DVD drive van Pioneer. Hieronder wat info over de performance van het ding:Under the synthetic benchmarks, the 16x drive posted numbers ...

DigiTimes says things might be slightly different in the enthusiast market because retail SATA optical drives are still pricier than their ATAPI counterparts—often by 20% to 30% the site claims.