PATA/IDE and
SATA
Interface
Overview
IDE – Integrated Drive Electronics
Interface electronics or controller is built into the drive
not on a separate board or card.
ATA – AT Attachment
Derived from the fact that this interface was originally
designed for IBM AT (Advanced Technology)
AT Bus – a.k.a. ISA (Industry Standard Architecture
PC Drive Interfaces
Interface When Used
ST-506/412 1978–1989 (obsolete)
ESDI 1983–1991 (obsolete)
Non-ATA IDE 1987–1993 (obsolete)
SCSI 1986–present
Parallel ATA (IDE) 1986–present
Serial ATA 2003–present
PATA Cable
Parallel ATA Dual-Drive Configuration
By jumper or switch you can designate:
master (single drive)
master (dual drive)
Slave (dual drive)
cable select (cs)
If cable select (cs) then:
Primary Drive (Drive 0) - master
Secondary Drive (Drive 1) – slave
Jumper Settings
PIO
PIO ModeMode
– the Programmed IO mode determines how fast data is
transferred to or from the drives using PIO transfers.
Most BIOSs automatically configures the PIO mode based on the
current drives capability. If mode is set higher than the drive can
handle, data corruption occurs.
ATA Standards
ATA-1 (obsolete)
original IDE standard
ATA-2 (Enhanced IDE (EIDE) or Fast-ATA)
ATA-3
ATA-4 (Ultra-ATA/33 or ATA-33)
ATA-5 (Ultra-ATA/66 or ATA-66)
ATA-6 (Ultra-ATA/100 or ATA-100)
ATA-7 (Ultra-ATA/133 or ATA-133)
Death PATA
PATA reached the end of it’s line more than 10 years.
Problems of PATA: (above 133 MHz)
signal timing
Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI)
other integrity problems
SATA
Serial ATA
Software compatible with PATA
Differ physically with PATA
Cables
Host Controllers
SATA Standards
SATA 1.0
drafted November 2001
released October 2002
1.5 Gbps signalling rate
SATA 2.0
released April 2004
3 Gbps
SATA 3.0
released 2009
6 Gbps
SATA Signal and Power Connectors