Not one to be constrained by specifications, Montac decided to construct an ATA cable that was well over the 18 inch maximum length. PATA cables use 80 conductor wire, even though they only have ...

where data is transferred one bit after another. See serial interface. Earlier printers used a Centronics parallel cable to attach to the computer, and disk drives used a parallel ATA (PATA ...

Count the pins or contacts on the cables. A PATA drive requires 39 or 40 holes in the data cable, and four pins on the power connection. A SATA drive requires two slot-type connectors, with seven ...

The data cable provides the high-speed connection to ... SATA was first introduced in 2000, replacing the aged PATA (Parallel ATA) ribbon cables. It was revised in 2003 and again in 2004 and ...

Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the same data cable, but only one could use it at a time and thus each required a distinct name. In fact, by the time ATA-2 was approved in 1996 ...