Depending on the drive being installed you have to use either a serial ATA interface, or a paralell ATA interface. The power/data connectors are different so you would not be able to interchange the cables.
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Most CD and DVD ROM drives still come in PATA.
Serial ATA was created in 2003.
ATA/ATAPI-7 -Serial SCSI standard is compatible with serial ATA drives in the same system
No, most new hard drives use Serial ATA or SATA connectors.
SATA (Serial ATA)
The serial ATA connector on the motherboard.
One power connector is for the SATA power cable and the other is for the standard power cable. Use one or the other depending on what power connectors you have available in your system but not both.
ATAPI-7
Serial ATA are thin cables that don't hinder airflow inside a case as much as the wide parallel ATA cables do.
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