Question audio cable to optical drive ( PCMech Forums Drives and Storage ) Updated: 2009-06-04 05:20:17 (6)
audio cable to optical drive
What's the point of the audio cable to the optical drive? Mine didn't come with one and I'm kinda wondering if I should email tech support and ask for a replacement. Is it important?
EDIT: It's SATA. Never mind.
Answers: audio cable to optical drive ( PCMech Forums Drives and Storage )
audio cable to optical drive
I've always wondered the same thing. I've never hooked up the cable.
mattaggie
audio cable to optical drive
As long as you are using an 80wire IDE cable or a SATA cable the audio cable is not required.
rjfvillarosa
audio cable to optical drive
It's one of those old hold-overs that manufacturers haven't bothered to start removing.
Alaron
audio cable to optical drive
yeah,
in the good olde days of cdrom/dvdrom, there was a headphone jack in the front of the drive, the audio cable supplies the sound to this jack.
this went away when dvdburner came around.
alfie2
audio cable to optical drive
Actually it was to get analog sound from the drive to the sound card - before the days of operating systems that were digital audio capable.
glc
audio cable to optical drive
I never knew that OS's today didn't need them, but I did know that they were for audio from the deck. My old Gateway had an audio cable on one drive, but not the other thus I couldn't play from that one and get any sound.
