cdrw interface

[kramer]

What interface would the cdrw drive be with this motherboard?
Is it ide?

[Yuanji]

i think ATA is what you use

[juicelooser]

Yes, it would be IDE. I don't believe there are any cases in consumer computers that it would be anything other than IDE.

[Alienware_Dude]

The terms IDE and ATA are also interchangeable when dealing with I/O interfaces.

[Force Flow]

Optical drives are only IDE in desktop systems. HDD's, on the other hand, can be either IDE or SATA.

[RJ]

Optical drives are only IDE in desktop systems. HDD's, on the other hand, can be either IDE or SATA.

No. IDE includes SATA as well, and SATA is for both opticals and HDDs. There are already two opticals available for SATA.

RJ

[JPMiller]

WOW... now Im almost confused..LOL
ATA = Advanced Technology Attachment
IDE = Integrated Drive Electronics
these terms are generically the same and are interchangable as mentioned...
S-ATA = Serial ATA
a newer interface, for now mostly used for Hard Drives...
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( COPIED FROM -- http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Serial-ATA.html )

In computer hardware Serial ATA (also SATA or S-ATA) is a computer bus primarily designed for transfer of data between a computer processor and hard disk. It has at least three main advantages over its predecessor, namely speed, cable management and hot-swappability.
Initially, Serial ATA was released at 150 megabytes per second, but it is designed to scale up quite substantially from there. Serial ATA 2.0 will double throughput to 300 MB/s, and 600 MB/s is planned for around 2007. Serial ATA's 150 MB/s it is still only 17 MB/s faster than the fastest parallel ATA interface ATA/133. Parallel buses have difficulty in reaching ever higher speeds due to problems keeping all the data lines in sync. Serial ATA uses the newer LVDS for the signalling. Still, the need for such a high speed interface could be debated as hard disks are almost always a bandwidth bottleneck being mechanical devices.
Physically, the cables used are the largest change. The data is carried by a light flexible seven conductor wire with 8 mm wide wafer connectors on each end. It can be anywhere up to one meter long. Compared to the short (18 inch, 45cm) ungainly 40 or 80 conductor ribbon cables of parallel ATA this will come as much relief to system builders. In addition, airflow and therefore cooling in equipment will be improved. The concept of a master/slave relationship between devices has been dropped. Serial ATA has only one device per cable. The connectors are keyed -- it should no longer be possible to install cable connectors upside down.
Serial ATA hard disks also require a different power connector as part of the standard. Fifteen pins are used to supply three different voltages if necessary -- 3.3 V, 5 V and 12 V. The same physical connections are used on 3.5 inch and 2.5 inch (notebook) hard disks.
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Your board has both...
---Two Serial ATA IDE interfaces
---Two Parallel ATA IDE interfaces with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support

Ideally you can connect your Hard Drive(s) using the S-ATA connections and use one IDE connector apiece for your Optical drives (CDRoms)