I'm about to buy an LG SATA blu-ray burner and will be installing it in a MacPro. Since the optical drive bays are IDE in the MacPro, I'll be using an SATA cable to go from the back of the drive to the motherboard where one of the four hard drive bays are located. My question is this: will Windows applications running in Parallels be able to see and utilize the drive or am I better off getting an external USB enclosure for the blu-ray burner? I'll need to be able to burn and read data directly from the drive while in the Windows environment. Thanks.
parallels only has usb drivers, you will need a usb burner if you want to burn using an app in a parallels virtual machine.
Actually, if CD/DVD is recognized in Mac (except USB), you can add it in VM configuration, but this exact model wasn't tested
