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Introduced the first PC to include BIOS support for hard drives.
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PATA drives dominated the industry for more than a decade ut have been mostly replaced by SATA.
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ATAPI is a newer version of the old ATA connection.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.
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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.
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Around 1990 an interface called advance technology attachment appeared that now vitually monopolizes the hard drive market.
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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.
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By 1995 EIDE dominated the PC world.
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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.
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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.
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SATA drives that sends data in serial, using only one wire for data transfers.
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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.
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I do not know when this was released.
