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ATA:
Short for: Advanced Technology Attachment, a disk drive implementation that integrates the controller on the disk drive itself. There are several versions of ATA, all developed by the Small Form Factor (SFF) Committee:
ATA: Known also as IDE, supports one or two hard drives, a 16-bit interface and PIO modes 0, 1 and 2.
ATA-2: Supports faster PIO modes (3 and 4) and multiword DMA modes (1 and 2). Also supports logical block addressing (LBA) and block transfers. ATA-2 is marketed as Fast ATA and Enhanced IDE (EIDE).
ATA-3: Minor revision to ATA-2.
Ultra-ATA: Also called Ultra-DMA, ATA-33, and DMA-33, supports multiword DMA mode 3 running at 33 MBps.
ATA/66: A version of ATA proposed by Quantum Corporation, and supported by Intel, that doubles ATA's throughput to 66 MBps.
ATA/100: An updated version of ATA/66 that increases data transfer rates to 100 MBps
So starting with ATA-2 what do we call this I/O interface?
IDE ?
EIDE ?
FASTATA ?
FASTATA-2 ?
ULTRA ATA ?
Most companies now call the interface by its proper name: ATA or ATAPI.
The other names are all the result of marketing hype from one or more of the companies making ATA products.
IDE was used by Conner Peripherals, Compaq and Western Digital starting back in 1986-1987. It continues to be widely used as the alternate name for ATA.
An IDE, EIDE, FASTATA or ULTRA ATA device is really an ATA (or ATAPI) device and all such devices are generally compatible with each other and can be used in the same system and even on the same ATA cable. Of course there are exceptions (devices that don't conform to the ATA or ATA/ATAPI standards).
Serial ATA or SATA is the newest version of the ATA interface. SATA claims to support all the traditional ATA functions but does it over an interface cable with only 7 wires (instead of the normal 40 wires for traditional parallel ATA interfaces). SATA also claims it will be faster but the history of serial interfaces indicates you must be careful when reading such speed claims.
Discussing SATA is difficult because: a) SATA was created by a "secret society" that prohibits members from talking outside of their meetings, b) current SATA documents are available only to the members of the "secret society", c) by the time a SATA document is made public it is basically obsolete and has been replaced by a new but secret SATA document, d) the SATA "secret society" is working with the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) committee(s) to also replace SCSI, e) the SATA documents that are public may be or will be re-published (probably with some changes?) by the T10 and T13 standards committees. All of this makes SATA a very confusing mess!
There is no doubt that SATA is in your future. SATA hard disk drives and PCI bus SATA host controllers are everywere today. And many motherboards are shipping today with SATA interfaces. If SATA proves successful, it will probably replace traditional parallel ATA with a few years.
Question here...
If you have a SATA drive, and you say that it is recognized as a SCSI/RAID ,, then to PROPERLY connect this you would require a SATA Adapter, and power ribbon that connects to the board NOT via an IDE cable,,, now yes your board will recognize and ATA drive ,, but that would be an IDE ATA I am thinking,,
With a True SATA board, to have two HDD attached ,, You need to have the adapters, and Make each SATA drives MASTER,,
I do not believe that you are able, or more,,have not found a method to combine an IDE ATA drive as slave to a SATA drive on the same MOBO,,
If there is a way,, share it..
But ,, I dont think so,,
By the by, All NON SATA drives are ATA,, referring to the board on the drive,, we call them IDE drives due to the method of connection,,
cheers