Whichever kind it has. Some optical drives have SATA cables. Some have EIDE cables. Some have SCSI cables. Some might even have USB cables.
If you're reading instructions that are telling you to do this, the only reason they're being specific about the data cable is to distinguish it from the power cable (possibly because if you disconnect the power cable you may not be able to eject the disk that's in the drive) or ... MAYBE ... the audio cable, because a lot of the time that's not even connected.
A Molex Connector connects to optical drives and hard drives.
I think it crashes!! :-(
If replacing the optical drive on a primary IDE controller, it is important it is compatible with the CD Rom drive. The IDE data cable must be connected and you must have the power cord plugged in.
An optical drive is an input and output device. It reads data from optical discs like CDs and DVDs (input) and writes data to these discs (output).
What types of cables were disconnected?
a cable for connecting a floppy drive to the computer motherboard.
An optical drive is for reading and possibly writing to optical media such as a CD or DVD. It is pretty much used like any other drive in a computer. Older optical drives could only read data and could not burn disks.
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.
FDD cable is for floppy disk drive (FDD).
Optical fibre typically can transmit data at the rate of 1 Gigabit (1024 Megabits) per second
An optical drive, or more accurately an optical disk drive (ODD) is medium for storing digital data. Examples are CD, DVD and blu-ray. The characteristic of an optical drive system is that beams of light (typically laser) are used to read the medium.
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.