Hi ! i use a sata dvd writer ,its a asus drw-1814blt. Fedora 7 and 8 has not shown me any problem . sata drives do work and are really faster than IDE drives. ------- Regards Subhodip Biswas GPG key : FAEA34AB Server : pgp.mit.edu http://subhodipbiswas.wordpress.com http:/www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SubhodipBiswas