> Wikipedia says:
>
> The terms "integrated drive electronics" (IDE), "enhanced
> IDE" and "EIDE" have come to be used interchangeably with
> ATA (now Parallel ATA, or PATA).
i don't think so. these are the last set of ata8 docs i downloaded
from incits. there's no parallel spec at all. it's been dropped
aam architecture model
ast serial transport
acs ata command set
i don't see any room here for conflating ide with ata.
there's a seperate set of docs detailing sata from sata-io.
> This matches my understanding. Recall that IDE was essentially
> ST-506 with all the analog bits done on the drive itself
> (hence the name Integrated Drive Electronics).
just because it once was, so it shall always be? somehow
i think the world has moved on.
- erik
