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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
convert SATA optical bay to USB port
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1562327" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>From my limited understanding, what you are asking is not possible.</p><p></p><p>You would need to connect direct to the PCI bus, not the SATA in order to do what you want.</p><p>Even if you found such an adapter, the SATA connections are designed only to recognize data storage devices. Connecting an adapter onto an SATA header is not going to change the design of the southbridge and how it uses the SATA bus.</p><p></p><p>'Tis why add-in cards you'll find for desktop machines plug directly into the PCI bus (which does not run through the southbridge - or last time I studied on this subject it didn't) - and not into an available IDE/SATA header... Where there exists no such adapter for a desktop, I would be pretty positive there would exist no such adapter for a notebook.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1562327, member: 24160"] From my limited understanding, what you are asking is not possible. You would need to connect direct to the PCI bus, not the SATA in order to do what you want. Even if you found such an adapter, the SATA connections are designed only to recognize data storage devices. Connecting an adapter onto an SATA header is not going to change the design of the southbridge and how it uses the SATA bus. 'Tis why add-in cards you'll find for desktop machines plug directly into the PCI bus (which does not run through the southbridge - or last time I studied on this subject it didn't) - and not into an available IDE/SATA header... Where there exists no such adapter for a desktop, I would be pretty positive there would exist no such adapter for a notebook. [/QUOTE]
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