Acard adapters work fine, and anything newer than a certain age will work with pretty much any software. I used an IDE DVD burner as a bootable drive for a Quadra 800 via an Acard adapter (UW-SCSI to IDE with UW to narrow adapter), and although I didn't try booting, I did connect a SATA Blu-ray burner to that same machine and it mounted CDs and DVDs, although it wouldn't mount Blu-ray discs.