Macdrone said:

Not sure, might have a driver issue. Driver is for SCSI and IDE for removable media, sata may not allow the drivers to do their job.

I'm no software or hardware engineer but I'm guessing that it would not work correctly as hard drives don't have drivers like cd/DVDs and zips do.

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Optical drives work fine on the Acard 6880M and 6820M.   The TSATA may perform differently.  It's by a different company and has different drivers, which may not support the optical drive commands.  It's SATA instead of IDE/ATA so there may be important differences in how driver commands are transmitted.   Still, I think if you already have the TSATA card, it's worth trying.   If you don't, you might look for the Acard 6290M.  I believe that's the PCI to Serial ATA card from Acard.