need SATA DVD-RW that works okay with S3 Sleep

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Benedict

Tried to move from IDE to SATA for better cable arrangement but the drive I
tried
didn't resume from S3 Sleep mode properly. The drive disappeared from both
Device Manager
and Windows Explorer and required a complete reboot to bring the drive back
so I returned it.

Some people get around the issue of disappearing drives by changing the SATA
controller from
AHCI to IDE (which disables features like NCQ and Hot-swapping) but that
isnt an option with my motherboard.

I have Samsung F3 drives in the master slots and the DVD-RW would have to
plug into one of the slave slots.

So does anyone know of a SATA DVD-RW (not bluray or HD) that'll function
happily with AHCI + NCQ and all that and resume properly from S3 Sleep?
 
Tried to move from IDE to SATA for better cable arrangement but the drive
I tried didn't resume from S3 Sleep mode properly. The drive disappeared
from both Device Manager and Windows Explorer and required a complete
reboot to bring the drive back

Omitted here is your BIOS setting for SATA. (Mine are under IDE
configuration.)
 
Don Phillipson said:
Omitted here is your BIOS setting for SATA. (Mine are under IDE
configuration.)

there's no option to switch between AHCI and IDE mode if thats what you
mean.
I know some people have used that to bring back disappearing drives but I
dont have the option in my Bios.
So I need a DVD-RW that can function on the same controller as a hard drive
with AHCI, NCQ and all that enabled.
 
Benedict said:
there's no option to switch between AHCI and IDE mode if thats what you
mean.
I know some people have used that to bring back disappearing drives but I
dont have the option in my Bios.
So I need a DVD-RW that can function on the same controller as a hard
drive with AHCI, NCQ and all that enabled.

Found one - the LiteOn iHAS-124 works perfectly. The quietest DVD-RW I've
used
and it functions properly with Sleep using the same SATA cable and port that
had
previously stumped the LG BH10LS30.
 
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