Gateway md2614u - ata or sata dvd?

Hello all. I bought a Gateway MD2614u laptop last year and wanted to upgrade the Optiarc DVD drive it came with to a blu-ray burner internal drive. After many emails back and forth with Gateway support, they gave me a telephone number for voice support. The man I talked to gave me the following information concerning my drive: SATA 12.7 mm GSA/T50F - he could not tell me what the GSA/T50F stood for.

I went into Device Manager where the DVD drive is described as "Optiarc DVD RW AD-7583S ATA Device" my concern is if I order a bluray burner with an SATA interface it may not fit due to a different type of interface connector (ATA is another name for IDE, no?) Or do manufacturers lump ATA and SATA devices together when providing a description for device manager? I saw on the Web where one man on the advice of another ordered a burner only to find out the drive he ordered had the SATA interface, his laptop had a different interface. If possible, I don't want to repeat this problem.

Is anyone familiar with the Optiarc DVD drive interface that came with the MD2614u Gateway series laptops, and if so did you order a blu-ray burner for it? What type? Thanks for any suggestions.

 

IDE=PATA
SATA will have a different connector

 

Thanks, I guess I'm gonna have to tear it down to be sure, I don't want to order the wrong drive - know anybody who replaced their dvd burner with a bluray burner?

 

Check this out.

 

Thanks for the link, nice work on the walkthrough on the replacement on the bluray drive in the P series. Gives me some different drive numbers I wasn't aware of either. I just gotta bite the bullet and pull mine out to see what the connector looks like. Again, thanks for the link