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Can I use this Plextor SATA drive on the A7N8X's SATA controller?  Someone
in some forum said that this will work properly only if the BIOS is up to
1008 (revision 2) or 1009 (earlier revisions).
 
Is this true?  TIA...

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I do not know if I would want to...I have read of lot's of grief putting
SATA DVDRW's and CDRW's on some of the older SATA controllers.

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> I do not know if I would want to...I have read of lot's of grief putting
> SATA DVDRW's and CDRW's on some of the older SATA controllers.
 
That's what I keep telling myself, and I've heard that, but I'm ordering
either the Pioneer DVR-109 or one of the two (IDE or SATA) Plextor PX-716
drives, and I'd LOVE to get rid of IDE when I also get a new hard drive.
 
I know that the 1008 BIOS was supposed to update the SATA controller, so I'd
like to know if anyone has tried an optical drive with this
board---especially the PX-716SA.

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I have the 1008 BIOS also..but have 2-120 gig SATA Maxtors on it
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/vi [...] 8866339bfd
 
go here and try...is tons of posts on our board there.

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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:03:08 -0500, "JonnyCab®"
<shutout39@localnetnospam.com> wrote:
 
>I know that the 1008 BIOS was supposed to update the SATA controller
 
The Asus site says that it only gives Semperon support.
 
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"JonnyCab®" <shutout39@localnetnospam.com> wrote in message
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> Can I use this Plextor SATA drive on the A7N8X's SATA controller?  Someone
> in some forum said that this will work properly only if the BIOS is up to
> 1008 (revision 2) or 1009 (earlier revisions).
 
I have been trying, without success, to get a PX-716SA working with an A8V
Deluxe MB.  It is proving tough to determine whether the SATA controllers do
not support optical devices or the SATA interface on the Plextor is broken.

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The A7N8X-E Deluxe's SATA does not support optical drives,
according to the manual.  It may be the same with your version.
 
"Pete Maclean" <pete@maclean.com> a écrit dans le message de news:  
d0ikha02r3r@news1.newsguy.com...
> "JonnyCab®" <shutout39@localnetnospam.com> wrote in message
> news:1126v70f0f230f4@corp.supernews.com...
>> Can I use this Plextor SATA drive on the A7N8X's SATA controller?  
>> Someone
>> in some forum said that this will work properly only if the BIOS is up to
>> 1008 (revision 2) or 1009 (earlier revisions).
>
> I have been trying, without success, to get a PX-716SA working with an A8V
> Deluxe MB.  It is proving tough to determine whether the SATA controllers  
> do
> not support optical devices or the SATA interface on the Plextor is  
> broken.
>
>

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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:01:37 -0500, "FG" <nono@nowhere.ca> managed to one finger
type the following:
 
>PX-716SA
 
 
Here is a excellent forum....that might be able to find you a solution...I use
the Liteon Forum...since i have LiteOn DVDRW 1673
 
http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=43
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I deleted my message, but what I intended to write was that
 
my A7N8X-E Deluxe's manual states that the SATA controller is not compatible
with optical drives.  It may be the same for A7M8X Deluxe.
 
"jroc" <jroc@special-forces.mil> a écrit dans le message de news:  
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> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:01:37 -0500, "FG" <nono@nowhere.ca> managed to one  
> finger
> type the following:
>
>>PX-716SA
>
>
> Here is a excellent forum....that might be able to find you a solution...I  
> use
> the Liteon Forum...since i have LiteOn DVDRW 1673
>
> http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=43
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"FG" <nono@nowhere.ca> wrote in message
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> The A7N8X-E Deluxe's SATA does not support optical drives,
> according to the manual.  It may be the same with your version.
 
Hmm.  I have been through my ASUS manual and manuals specific to the
controllers (which I had overlooked before) and I can find no mention of
optical drives at all.