Are CD-ROM Drives Universal?

[SAAER45]

I am putting a new CD-ROM/Burner Drive Into an old computer, will the connections be all different because it's an old computer, or will the connections in the old computer be the same as a new computer. Thanks in Advance.
John

 

[jancz3rt]

Yes

They are universal. They utilize the same IDE cable as before. You may run into difficulties with jumper settings (master/slave) but other than that, there should be no problem.

JAN

 

[Geoff]

or you may run into some driver issues if its a very old comp (windows 3.1 or windows 95 for example). But jan is right, new ones and old ones both use IDE cables.

 

[Praetor]

They are universal. They utilize the same IDE cable as before.

With older drives there is an increased chance that you're dealing with SCSI optical drives (which rock btw)

or you may run into some driver issues if its a very old comp (windows 3.1 or windows 95 for example

What do the operating system and cables have to do with each other? Drivers perhaps but cabling?