Pioneer blu ray drive in mac and with bootcamp??

Hello everyone. I read a post on this forum about installing a blu ray drive in a mac and it working perfect. Now my question is, will it work if I have bootcamp and switch over to windows XP. Otherwords will the drive work on windows XP on the mac using bootcamp???? thanks

Windows doesn't recognize the spare SATA ports on the motherboard. So if that is what you were going to use, no.
There is an article up on http://www.xlr8yourmac.com about how to install a drive in the lower optical bay.

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