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asmith@vtrl.co.uk writes:

> I would agree with your view on IDE becoming obsolete on hard drives,
> but I as yet, am not aware of any CD/DVD drives with a SATA interface.

Plextor is shipping one for example. There are probably more.
Unfortunately the S-ATAPI support in Linux seems to be still WIP.

-Andi