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ATA=AT bus Attachment. Used at the PC, Apple Macintosh and some other computers

40 pin IDC male connector
at the controller & peripherals
Advanced Technology Attachment
(ATA), is a standard interface for
connecting storage devices such as
hard disks and CD-ROM drives inside
personal computers. Many terms and
synonyms for ATA exist, including
abbreviations such as IDE, ATAPI,
and UDMA. ATA standards only
allow cable lengths in the range of
450 to 900 mm, so the technology
normally appears as an internal
computer storage interface. It provides
the most common and the least
expensive interface for this
application.
Pin Name Dir Description
1 /RESET Reset
2 GND Ground
3 DD7 Data 7
4 DD8 Data 8
5 DD6 Data 6
6 DD9 Data 9
7 DD5 Data 5
8 DD10 Data 10
9 DD4 Data 4
10 DD11 Data 11
11 DD3 Data 3
12 DD12 Data 12
13 DD2 Data 2
14 DD13 Data 13
15 DD1 Data 1
16 DD14 Data 14
17 DD0 Data 0
18 DD15 Data 15
19 GND Ground
20 KEY -
Key (Pin
missing)
21 DMARQ ?
DMA
Request
22 GND Ground
23 /DIOW Write Strobe
24 GND Ground
25 /DIOR Read Strobe
26 GND Ground

40 pin IDC female connector
at the cable
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27 IORDY I/O Ready
28
SPSYNC:
CSEL
?
Spindle Sync
or Cable
Select
29 /DMACK ?
DMA
Acknowledge
30 GND Ground
31 INTRQ
Interrupt
Request
32 /IOCS16 ?
IO
ChipSelect 16
33 DA1 Address 1
34 PDIAG ?
Passed
Diagnostics
35 DA0 Address 0
36 DA2 Address 2
37 /IDE_CS0 (1F0-1F7)
38 /IDE_CS1 (3F6-3F7)
39 /ACTIVE Led driver
40 GND Ground
Each cable has two or three
connectors, one of which plugs into a
controller that interfaces with the rest
of the computer system. The
remaining one or two connectors plug
into drives. Parallel ATA cables
transfer data 16 or 32 bits at a time.
One occasionally finds cables that
allow for the connection of three ATA
devices onto one IDE channel, but in
this case one drive remains read-only
(this type of configuration virtually
never occurs).
For most of ATA"s history, ribbon
cables had 40 wires, but an 80-wire
version appeared with the introduction
of the Ultra DMA/66 standard. The 80-
wire cable provides one ground wire
to each signal wire. This reduces the
effects of electromagnetic induction
between neighboring wires and
enables the 66 megabyte per second
(MB/s) transfer rate of UDMA4. The
faster UDMA5 and UDMA6
standards require 80-conductor cables.
This was done to reduce crosstalk.
Though the number of wires doubled,
the number of connector pins remains
the same as on 40-conductor cables.
The physical connectors are identical
between the two cable types.
If two drives attach to a single cable,
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the configuration generally sees one
as a master and the other as a slave.
The master drive generally shows up
ahead of the slave drive when the
computer"s operating system
enumerates available drives. The
master drive arbitrates access to
devices on the channel. Because of
this, latency-sensitive devices such as
early CD-RW drives often benefitted
from functioning as a master, and
each channel must have a master in
order to function properly.
In a drive setting called cable select
the drives automatically configure
themselves as master or slave. This is
achieved by cutting wire 28 (on 40
wire cables, or wires 56 and 57 on 80
wire cables) between the two HDD/
CDROM connectors. Some newer
cables have this done internally in the
connectors. In this case, the two
connectors are of different colours.
Note: Direction is Controller relative
Devices (Harddisks). Developed by
Western Digital, Conner & Seagate
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