The data cable used by the normal IDE CD-ROM drive is called the USB cable. USB stands for universal serial bus.
answer by saradjust the CD ROM drive in the bay.see back side of the drive.attach data cable to the connector keeping red strip side inside. and other end connector attached to ide2 controller.now from the power supply . take a 4 pin connetor cable and attach o the power connector of the drive .keeping red wire inside.
a cable for connecting a floppy drive to the computer motherboard.
Data cables (called ata cables or serial or SCSI) simply transfer data from one device to the motherboard inside or even to another device hooked up to the same cable. An example would be a cdrom drive could transfer data for listening to music via the data cable and the motherboard would process it and produce sound via speakers.
There is a data cable,and a power cable that connect the drive to your PC. Everything is done with the data cable, there is no audio or video wires.
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FDD cable is for floppy disk drive (FDD).
A CDROM is a disc that contains data and computer software like video gaming. Computers can read the CDROM it is a read only memory and cannot be written on.
Data bus moves data inside your computer. Normal cable moves data external. Data buses are parallel and most network media is serial. Some media is also analog where as the data bus passes data digitally. There are many differences but to be more specific would depend on which 'normal cable' you are referring too.
1. A floppy cable will almost always contain a small "twist" in it, in which a port of the wires are turned in reverse.2. A floppy cable has 34 pins. A PATA hard drive cable has 40 pins.
I would start checking cables, possably replacing the data cable. The CDROM drive might be dirty. If you have more than one drive try changing the order on the data cable. Make sure the jumpers are set properly. Will another drive read the disk you are using? I hope these ideas will help. Check your ide drivers in your device manager. If you have the Nvidea ide drivers, roll them back to the original windows drivers.
There are two cables connected to the floppy drive; Power cable - 4 pins, Data cable - 34 pins.
A CD/DVD Rom drive is connected by either connecting an IDE or SATA data and power cable to the drive, the other end of the data cable is connected the a slot on the motherboard and the power cable already comes out of the PSU.