From: Alan Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:38:44 -0400
"Will Schoumaker wrote:
Where are the many reports at this forum of generic (not Mac specific) IDE (I'm guessing you mean ATA) cards working fine in our machines?
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I stand corrected and I must confess I never fully understood the difference between IDE and ATA.
The Tempo is a ATA card.
And my various drives are...ATA ?
Actually, I'm looking at the box for a recent purchase that went into a 7500 -- a SIIG Ultra ATA 133/100 Pro card "for Mac".
Another purchase lately has been Seagate Ultra ATA/100 and Serial ATA drives.
Then what the heck is IDE ?
None of my PCI card purchases has been for anything other then adding hard drives.
Maybe IDE is for such things as CD-R/RW or DVD drives ? "
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I wouldn't have posted my last post if i'd seen you post before hand . It seems you posted while I was composing my post.
What is ATA/IDE?
ATA (AT Attachment) and IDE (Integrated Device Electronics) are one and the same: a disk drive implementation that integrates the controller on the disk drive itself. This was directly connected to the I/O bus of the first PC - the IBM AT. As a consequence, the bus width is still 16 bits on all implementations.
I am sure someone else could better answer the ide/ata question but above is a quote from the net. It seems to me that drives used to all be called ide/IDE . Now days ATA seems to be used for hard drives and IDE for DVD/ CDRW drives in general. Will S
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