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IBM veiled 80286-powered IBM PC AT
Introduced the first PC to include BIOS support for hard drives. -
PATA was created!
PATA drives dominated the industry for more than a decade ut have been mostly replaced by SATA. -
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface!
ATAPI is a newer version of the old ATA connection. ATAPI is made to connect all portable devices to your motherboard including RAM, hard drives, CD-ROMs, DVD drives, and other devices. ATA and ATAPI were invented by Western Digital and the standard is maintained by X3/INCITS Committee. -
New Hard Drive created!
Western Digital and Compaq deveoped a new hard drive interface and placed this specification before the Americn National Standards Institute which put out the ATA interface. -
ATA was created!
Around 1990 an interface called advance technology attachment appeared that now vitually monopolizes the hard drive market. -
Enhanced IDE was created!
The industry adopted a series of improvements to the ATA standard called ATA-2. EIDE was really no more than a marketing term invented by Western Digital, but it caught on in common vernacular and is still used today, although use is fading. -
EIDE dominates!
By 1995 EIDE dominated the PC world. -
Logical Blocking Address!
a common scheme used for specifying the location of blocks of data stored on computer storage devices, usually secondary storage systems such as hard disks. Most hard drives released after 1996 implement Logical block addressing. -
ATA-4
The ATA/ATAPI-4 also introduced several "Ultra DMA" transfer modes. These initially supported speeds from 16 MByte/s to 33 MByte/second. In later versions faster Ultra DMA modes were added, requiring a new 80-wire cable to reduce crosstalk. The latest versions of Parallel ATA support up to 133 MByte/s. -
SATA(Serial ATA) was created!
SATA drives that sends data in serial, using only one wire for data transfers. -
S.M.A.R.T. feature!
One of the few PC acronyms that requires the use of periods after each letter. Helps predict when a hard drive is going to fail by monitoring the hard drive's mechanical components. -
40-pin Ribbon Cable was created!
I do not know when this was released.
