OK another dumb question SATA drives & soundcards

[DREDIOCK]

OK,

Havent gotten one yet let alone hooked it up

Regardng SATA CD/DVD burning drives.

With the IDE drives you had a couple of wires that ran to your sound card.
In looking at the pictures I see no such wires.
How do you hook them up to your sound card?
Or dont you?
Does it just run through the motherboard as if you were playing a music file off your hard drive?

[BaldEagl]

Does it just run through the motherboard as if you were playing a music file off your hard drive?

Yes

[Fender16]

Runs through the motherboard.

[Chalenge]

I think I read that most SATA devices should be recognized by your operating system and appropriately setup automatically (Vista does and I have forgotten about XP). If for some reason it doesnt default to that after installation just go to the CD/DVD players properties window and make sure the 'use digital audio' is selected and you wont need the patch wire.

[Krusty]

Those wires are generally outdated technology. From a way of playing the DVD feed directly to the sound card like a walkman CD-player would. Some computers even boasted being able to play CDs when turned off like a stereo. Now everything just goes through the motherboard.

[llama]

PATA/IDE optical drives may have had the extra audio connectors all this time, but 99% of the time for 99% of all users, the audio was grabbed digitally and played through the PATA cable and the motherboard.

-Llama

[drdeathx]

what kind of motherboard do you have. Do you have the sata connector on your mb??? If not you need to get a card that retrofits in a pci slot to plug her in.