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80286
IBM unveiled the 80286 powered IBM PC AT in the early 1980's, it introduced the first PC to include BIOS support for hard drives. -
ATA appeared....
An interface called advanced technology attachment (ATA) appeared that now virtually monopolizes that hard drive market. -
ATA 2
The industry adopted a series of improvements to the ATA standard called ATA-2, also known as the Enhanced IDE or the EIDE. -
ATA-3
ATA-3 came on quickly after ATA-2 but ATA-3 came with a new feature called Self Monitoring Analusis and Repoting Technology, or simply S.M.A.R.T -
ATA-4
Anyone who has opened a big database file on a hard drive appreaciates that a faster hard drive is better, ATA-4 introduced a new DMA mode called Ultra DMA -
EIDE drives start dominatinf the PC world
Reqular IDE drives quickly disappered and EIDE drives began to start dominating the PC world -
ATA was first introduced
Western Digital and Compaq developed a new hard drive interface which in turn put out the AT attachment or the ATA interface -
ATA-5
After the DMA was such a big hit the ATA-5 introducted a new type of ribbon cable that could handle the higer speeds this is an 80-wire cable, it still has 40 pins but 80 wires. -
ATA-6
T13 committee adopted an industry proposal pushed by Maxtor(a major hard drive maker) and named it ATA/ATAPI-6 or simply ATA-6 -
ATA-7
ATA-7 brought two new innovations to the ATA world Ata/133 and Serial ATA. Serial ATA (SATA) became the newest and is now is the most used ATA.
