[Pc_Support] Weird Losing connected DVD-burners after 'Dynamic Disk' on XP64bit -- no such thing as a SATA ATAPI device ...

[David Simmons]

> It wouldn't surprise me if the SATA support in NT just changed because
> you changed to Dynamic Discs.  Now it assumes _all_ SATA devices are
> Dynamic Discs, largely because it's _grossly_ignorant_ of SATA ATAPI
> devices.

Ah-ha!...so to test this theory - I swapped out the SATA connected burner
with an IDE equavalent.  This Motherboard only has 1 IDE connection, but 6
SATA.

In doing so - the drivers/registry was a HEAD-ACHE!!! The machine wouldn't
recognize the IDE drive because of old drivers - basically the only that
worked was to download/run the NERO Clean Tools (to remove drivers & clean
the registry).  Even though I didn't have NERO on the machine - this was
some FREE software that removed the corrupted driver/registry entries -
you can find these downloads/tools at:

http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/enu/Clean_Tools.html

Once the old/corrupted stuff was gone...the system worked like a charm!

> It might have an ATA-to-SATA converter inside, but that doesn't mean
> ATAPI works correctly over it.  In fact, it's virtually a "hack"
> because _no_one_ supports ATAPI over SATA yet -- only certain vendors
> support _explicit_ chipsets.
>
> In other words, _wait_ until there is _native_ ATAPI support in SATA.  ;->

Hmmm...let me add a caveat to this statement....ONLY if you're running
Windows Systems (is the above true).  As on my SuSE 10.1 system, the
hardware is working great!

Either way - thanks for the input and I hope this info will help someone
else.

dave