Halp!

http://tinyurl.com/5euu95
(IDE to SATA converter)

Hey I got a couple of these on ebay (for much cheaper) and can't seem to get them to work.  Just trying them on a DVD drive but my comp is detecting it.  My mobo has 6 sata ports and if I go into the BIOS settings it shows whats connected to all of them, and it's not even detecting the DVD drive in there...any suggestions?

comp is ***not*** detecting it

anyone?

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Many of these adapters don't work with optical drives. You might want to try different optical drives and/or different motherboards, but I guess that's not exactly an option.
I suppose they DO work with HDDs since you tested them, right? If you didn't, do it now.
Consider setting your optical drives to "master" before connecting it, as there's a chance this might alleviate your problems.