Blu ray burner options?

Hi Everyone,
I am looking to get an internal Blu Ray burner for my Mac Pro but sadly I realized that the internal connection is PATA. OWC offers a wide variety of Blu Ray burners but all the internal ones are SATA. Does anyone know if an adapter exists to make this work? Or should I give in and maybe go for an external FireWire 800 model?
I do have Windows XP SP2 installed via Bootcamp and whatever model I get would need to be recognized in both platforms. I'm just having some trouble understanding this high definition technology.
Suggestions? Please
Rio

Hi Malcolm,
Thanks for the link. Very useful info and solution. In the meantime I found an MCE Blu-ray burner but I'm not sure if it would be a better solution that the one you have provided. This one is quite expensive and I don't know this company's credibility. Here is the address:
http://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/#osxcompat
I wonder if it would be a better investment to get the adapter you suggested and get a SATA Blu-ray burner which could, if needed be inserted into an enclosure if I wanted to use it externally with another computer in the future. Would the speed be affected by using it externally?
Rio

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