ATA and IDE use the same interface type, so the answer is YES, you can put the a ATA and an IDE in the same computer.
Yes.
A serial hard drive is the same as a SATA hard drive. SATA is Serial ATA, and PATA is Parallel ATA.
They are totally irrelevant to one another, except for being in the same computer.
It depends. On a laptop the hard drive is built in, but in a desktop PC the hard drive is a removable component inside the computer tower. You can also purchase an external hard drive that is completely separate from the computer and connects via USB, an external S/ATA port or Firewire.
The term 'ATA' (Advanced Technology Attachment) is a measurement standard and an electronic method of transferring data between the hard drive and the rest of a computer.
It is using the EIDE connection. The book says that if you have a hard drive and a CD that the hard drive should be the master and the CD will be the slave.
if there is no sata (serial ATA) device connected, this could be a hard drive, or cd drive etc,
All computers are compatible with ATA hard drive, still.
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No its not ATA is a interface standard not a type of hard drive the only difference between Ultra ATA and a diffrent inerface standard is that it can use the 80-conductor cable or serial ATA cable
The IDE/ATA bus controller manages the flow of information between the hard drive and the rest of the computer. At this point in time, The IDE/ATA bus controller is typically built into the motherboard so hard drives can be connected directly to the motherboard.
DVD ROM drives can be connected using a USB connector/interface or installed in the computer using a Serial ATA connector (or if you computer is old an ATA connector if you can find an ATA DVD drive).