Windows 10: IDE drive to SATA host

I an trying to reuse old IDE drives and DVD writers in a system that only has SATA on board. I bought two kinds of adaptor board for it but none of them works. Here are the two boards:





I've tried them on 2 PCs (B75 and Z97 chipset, both run Windows 10), 3 old IDE HDDs and 2 IDE DVD writers. I've tried all combinations of the above and none of them works. I even tried both SATA ports on the first board (red) just in case the label on it is wrong but neither of them works. The first board is "better" then the second one in the sense that BIOS and windows' device manager recognized the devices and showed their brand and model number, but disk management said that the HDD needs initialization. But when I initialize it, it said I/O device error. The second one didn't even appear in BIOS and any windows 10 functions.

If I only use one board then I would say I got a faulty card, but both not working indicate that it is not bad luck. Appreciate if any of you can tell me is there any setting or configuration that can make them work?

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Optical Drives, SATA or IDE?

What do you guys recommend? I have 6 SATA slots on my Mobo and I will be installing three HDDs initially. I may install a SSD drive later so that would be 4. I am trying to decide if I want to use IDE and save my two additional SATA slots. I am going to install two optical drives. I am not very concerned about a little more burn speed for the optical drives as they are not used that often.
Comments and Suggestions?
Tnx

 

X58 and IDE CD-ROM drives.

Any IDE port should work but I would suggest getting a SATA optical drive regardless.

 

SATA DVD-RW Drives

Hey Guys,

So, I finally just bought my new rig: EVGA A1 Mobo (w/ 6 SATA Slots), 2 WD Raptors (SATA - Gonna RAID 0 Boot), 4 Seagate 320GB Barracuda's (SATA - Gonna RAID 5 Storage).
However, I realized I also bought 2 DVD-RW drives, in SATA *Eek! not enough SATA ports on the mobo...

So a couple of questions follow:
1) Is SATA really faster for DVD-RW drives than IDE?
2) Is there anyway to Inline/Series the (2) SATA DVD-RW drives, kinda like you do with IDE (Master/Slave)?
3) Are there any SATA-->IDE reverse adaptors (not the opposite, I know those exist)?
4) Based on the above answers, should I:

• a) Get a PCI-E SATA RAID Card to Handle One of the RAID Arrays, and keep the DVD-RW drives as SATA? (although those are dang expensive, AND I don't know where that PCI Card is gonna fit - got an 8800gtx, PCI Slot-Cooler, Wifi card... an extra slot but no room down there)
• b) Return the DVD-RW SATA drives and get (2) IDE DVD-RW drives?
• Another option that won't require me spending a lot of money?

Eesh, I'm kinda stuck on my build if I don't have a CD Drive to read from for Windows Install(I don't have any extra ones sittin around - and I want to install my RAID 5 Storage array right away)

Suggestions?*Confused