ATA Standard

By shmessicashmunn

  • ATA-1 1980's

    In the early 1980's it introduced the first PC to include BIOS support for hard drives.

  • Problems

    TA new hard drive interface was designed which then put out the AT interface1989
  • ATA-2

    ATA-2

    The 1990 industry adopted a series of improvements of te ATA standard called the ATA-2. These new features were called the enhanced IDE by many people.
  • Paralell and Serial ATA

    Paralell and Serial ATA

    ATA appeared around the 1990's and it virtually monopolizes the hard drive market, ATA hard drives are often referred to as IDE drives.

  • BIOS

    Phoenix Technologies made a new set of BIOS commando. (INT13 extensions)

  • 21st Century

    Hard drives began to become very popular in the 21st century. The ATA-6 was created. This hard drive introduced Ultra DMA mode 5.