• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

[noob] pata

Short answer: Yes.

History lesson:

Originally, there was only one ATA (AT Attachment, a reference to the IBM AT PCs) standard, that was a 16 bit paralell (hence the P in PATA) interface, 40 pin cable, etc. This standard went through several revisions as drives continued to get bigger and faster. Over time, it came to be known as IDE, or Integrated Drive/Device electronics, as the drive controller, rather than being an add in card, was actually on the drive itself. ATA functioned as an interface between the drive controller and the host system. That's why a system has an ATA host and ATA ports, not an ATA controller - the controllers for the drives are built into the drives.

Western Digital, with their drive to be different, launched one of the new ATA standards before it was ratified, under a different name, EIDE (Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics). I can't remember which ATA version it was exactly, Google if you want to find out, it was many years ago. WD markets their PATA drives as EIDE to this day. However, the official spec is ATA, and that is used by all of the makers, including WD, they just spell it differently.

Now that we have two flavors of ATA (paralell and serial), it is necessary to distinguish the two, hence PATA and SATA. IDE does refer to certian versions of the (P)ATA standard, but PATA is the technically correct term.
 
ah.. thank you..

I thought it was but wasn't sure as IDE is a parallel cable
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top