Parallel ATA

Parallel ATA cables transfer data 16 bits at a time.

In parallel ATA hard drive arrangements, the terms master and slave are used but neither drive has control over the other.

Parallel ATA standards allow cable lengths up to only 18 inches (46 centimeters) .

The latest versions of Parallel ATA support up to 133 MByte/s.

This is caused by the omission of both overlapped and queued feature sets from most parallel ATA products.

Beside the parallel ATA connector also an expansion port pass through was included to allow attaching of other cartridges.

Parallel ATA interfaces were designed to support two drives on each channel, connected as master and slave on a single cable.

Motherboard vendors still wishing to offer Parallel ATA with those chipsets must include an additional interface chip.

For personal computers, this size is used today in floppy-disk-drive cables and older or custom Parallel ATA cables.

Parallel ATA, also known as Enhanced IDE supports up to 2 devices per channel.

Convert SATA devices to parallel ATA port.

The card slot on this version is separated from the parallel ATA port, which is more compatible to strange CF cards.

There are many differences between Serial ATA and Parallel ATA.

For example, the first generation of this device had a 100BASE-T network adapter using a Parallel ATA hard drive.

Connectors and cables present the most visible differences between SATA and parallel ATA drives.

The connection that came before that was called "IDE" and is called Parallel ATA today.

Most internal drives are designed with parallel ATA interfaces, with serial ATA becoming more readily available.

Parallel ATA and USB devices also provide similar data, but do not refer to it as VPD.

The AT attachment (ATA, now referred to as "Parallel ATA")

Parallel ATA (P-ATA)

Then, for a disk drive connected via Parallel ATA, each of them must be converted to logical (means fake) cylinder-head-sector address due to the interface historical shortcomings.

The harddrive support is available by a virtual A600/A1200 style GAYLE parallel ATA interface.

Parallel ATA (IDE) interface (mostly replaced by SATA)

SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) has replaced the old parallel ATA interface as a way of connecting hard drives to the motherboard.

Parallel ATA interfaces for hard drives and other peripherals Some kinds of connectors, though more often used for balanced pairs, are sometimes used for single-ended operation: