Drives are linked by cables called SATA cables, these send data through the motherboard
For Two Connectors on a motherboard for two 40-pin data cable.
All computer parts are connected by a large array of cables, however the central component is the motherboard. All components connect to the motherboard. Which gives the parts power and allows them to connect to each other. New components may need drivers to be able to communicate with the computer, these drivers can come with the new hardware, or may need to be downloaded.
This is a good example of a question you might get in a bad computer repair class.Never assume you know what a cable does.Always study the motherboard and see where every cable is connected. Then identify what the function of the cable is.That said. In a generic Personal Computer there are typically only two types of cables. Data and Power. Data connects the motherboard bus to your equipment (eg. HardDrive). Power cables feed power from the DC converter to your equipment.
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.
If you have Bluetooth , Infrared or Data cables connected to the phone you can overcome it.
False
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.
Electrical power control signals Data
The basic function of power cables is to provide power to equipment. The basic function of data cables is to transfer data, from one device to another.
- How hard drives and other drives interface with a computer system (type of cables and connectors used by drives, motherboard or expansion cards) - Data speeds and transfer methods between the drive controller, the BIOS, the chip-sets on motherboard, and the OS
by studying the motherboard data sheet