Question 1

I am adding another optical drive but have no place to plug in on the motherboard. Is this what I need?

Accepted Answer

yes a very effective way to add more optical drives it is very effective with older motherboards to add the newer sata drives  from the older outdated optical drives. here are also some spits available the turn 1 sata output into 2 or 4 output that plug into the sata port. Not sure how effective they are but do know that this setup works great .

Question 2

what are the only compatibility requirements if any?

Accepted Answer

To be honest with you I did not have any issue with this card. I have used it in the Widows 7 Professional OS environment, on a custom machine I built, well as on a Dell Dimension 850, with the same OS without any complications or issued the integration was seamless.

Question 3

Would this card work in a non-Win environment such as FreeDOS?

Accepted Answer

The card was purchased for use in Windows; I've not used any other operating system in the past 18-19 years, not the pre- 32-bit MS-DOS, nor any Xnix, Apple OS, etc.  My use of Android is relatively infrequent, also.  I hope that helps you.

Questions & Answers