The one that is not recognisable in the BIOS is SATA.I have tried a few cables.
Of course, the older ones lasted longer. I am talking about newer ones (from 5 years ago or newer).
It is not a PSU issue. Same thing happenes to a few people I new. We where talking about it, a few years ago, on how we had noticed this optical drives last about a year or so.
I was also reading, in one of the PC magazines, that there are a lot of imported refurbished drives sold on the Serbian market as new...