Optical drive needs IDE ribbon cable

You need a sata optical drive to do that. Ide and Sara are not compatible with each other.

Also note that your optical drive might need a ide80 cable not 40. 80 has 80 thin lines whereas 40 has 40slightly thicker lines.

On the plus side, you only need a bog standard Molex 4pin power connector!
 
Just get a USB DVD drive, far handier and only a couple of quid more than a SATA drive. When do you ever really need an internal drive now..

(Unless it's a media PC)
 
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