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ATA Hard Druve VS IDE Hard Drive
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| Anyone can shed some light, what is the difference between ATA Hard Drive
and IDE Hard Drive?
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
NE
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| Hellraiser 2004-02-14, 7:25 am |
| "NAS" <sweet-home@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Anyone can shed some light, what is the difference between ATA Hard Drive
> and IDE Hard Drive?
None. It's the same thing.
Hellraiser........>
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| Actually there are minor differences, but none that should really matter.
IDE - Intelligent Drive Electronics
EIDE/ATA - Enhanced IDE / Advanced Terminal Atachment
ATA represents a newer standard for the old IDE system. If you are running
a simple Pentium or better you are most likely running ATA (EIDE). The
number that will follow ATA represents the maximum data transfer rate. ex.
33, 66, 100 or 133. All versions use the same 40 pin connector, however
those that are newer than 33 require an 80 wire cable (each pin has its own
ground wire).
I hope this helps
Joe
MCSE:S&M (what were they thinking in Redmond)
"Hellraiser" <hellraiser1.nospam@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> None. It's the same thing.
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> Hellraiser........>
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| pconant 2004-02-14, 10:26 am |
| Also, in the early days IDE stood for something different. It was
INTERGRATED device electronics. At one time it was considered a breakthru
to have the drive controller ON the hard drive.
http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/...grated_Devi.htm
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> Anyone can shed some light, what is the difference between ATA Hard Drive
> and IDE Hard Drive?
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> Thanks for your help.
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> Regards,
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> NE
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| Marlin Munrow 2004-02-16, 1:26 pm |
| On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 04:48:05 GMT, "NAS" <sweet-home@verizon.net>
wrote:
>Anyone can shed some light, what is the difference between ATA Hard Drive
>and IDE Hard Drive?
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>Thanks for your help.
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>Regards,
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>NE
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And of course
Serial ATA...
One word...
WOOOOOOOOOSH!
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| ATA, standing for AT Attachment, as in IBM AT, was the original name
of the spec. Western Digital and someone else came up with the
moniker Integrated Device Electronics, or IDE. Seagate screamed for
years about IDE, calling it a misnomer, nothing but a marketing
gimmick. Whatever, it seems to have worked because IDE caught on and
became the more popular name. Then came -- I think it was -- ATA-2
which was also E for enhanced or EIDE. Which didn't catch on at all,
and everybody still called EIDE devices IDE. ATA is still the
"official" quote quote name of the spec and persists in things like
ATAPI, which is the programming interface that allows things like CD
drives to run on IDE
channels.  Since then the spec has grown quite a bit, through
various PIO modes and UDMA, UDMA 33, 66, 100, now all riding into the
sunset as SATA comes to town. And ATA gets a new life, unless someone
comes up with SEIDE, for serial enhanced integrated device
electronics, and pronounced "Seedy" That'd be fun, I can hear users
and students crying out all over the country, "what do you mean,
change to the root of the SEEDY drive or the root of the C-D drive?"
"Oh, yeah? And anyway, whattaya mean, 'root'?"
Mike
"NAS" <sweet-home@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Anyone can shed some light, what is the difference between ATA Hard
Drive
> and IDE Hard Drive?
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> Thanks for your help.
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> Regards,
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> NE
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