Generally ATA is A ribbon cable but there are also round ATA cables that allow better air circulation in small or crowded cabinets.
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No. ATA100 uses an 80pin ribbon cable and the Serial-ATA uses a much smaller, red 7pin cable.
Older hard drives typically used a flat ribbon cable, known as an "IDE" or "ATA" cable. Modern SATA drives use a thick but narrow cable, usually red in color.
What is the pin number for the ribbon cable?
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Data path is more in 80 ribbon cable.. The data transaction is faster than 40 ribbon cable..
No its not ATA is a interface standard not a type of hard drive the only difference between Ultra ATA and a diffrent inerface standard is that it can use the 80-conductor cable or serial ATA cable
parallel ATA
buy a DVD drive and swap the one you have for the new one. make sure you buy the correct interface, IDE ATA or SATA. Best way to check is the opent he computer and look at the data cable going into the Cd drive, a flat ribbon like cable is IDE ATA, a slender cable is SATA, I highly doubt any computer with a CD drive would be SATA. Go with an IDE ATA DVD drive.
A ribbon cable can carry information in either direction, either in or out.
A parallel ATA connector can use one data cable for two drives.
Drivers are connected to the motherboard with ribbon cables or thinner SERIAL ATA cables.