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IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics - It's a type of interface to connect IDE hard drives to the motherboard. IDE connections use the wide gray 40/80pin cables.
IDE connections are being replaced by the faster SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) which has a smaller 7pin cable and can hot swapped as well.
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∙ 6y agoIDE Cables are cables that transfer data between devices in a desktop computer (Such as a hard drive and disk drive to a motherboard). The are very wide, and very flat. And have been replaced by the SATA cable which offer faster transfer speeds, in a smaller cable.
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∙ 14y agoIt means Integrated Device (or Drive) Electronics
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∙ 14y agoIde Devices
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What is an IDE port?
a port for the IDE cable to connect the hardrive and cddrive to the motherboard.
How many hard drives can connect to a single ide cable?
Only two drives can be supported on an IDE cable. One Master and one Slave.
How many pins on the ribbon cable are used to connect an IDE drive?
40
What does an IDE do?
An IDE connector is used to connect a CD-ROM drive or hard drive to a motherboard, with a long and flat ribbon cable.
What is IDE pins?
IDE is a connection standard in computing. The pins refer to the ends of the cable used to connect devices (usually hard drives).
What does an IDE connector do?
An IDE connector is used to connect a CD-ROM drive or hard drive to a motherboard, with a long and flat ribbon cable.
While installing an IDE device you find that the cable to connect the IDE device is not keyed what should you do?
Locate the red stripe on the cable and connect to the device with the red stripe lining up to pin #1 and If there is also no red stripe locate the blue stripe on the cable and connect to the device with the blue stripe lining up to pin #1
How do you upgrading hdd?
Connect new hdd and check for proper jumper connection. Configure both HDD to master and slave if they are connected using same IDE cable or if they both have different set of IDE cables, then just connect the HDD and provide power cable from SMPS.. Similar for SATA HDD
How do you identify an Integrated drive electronics interface?
Check for the interface that is used to connect it to the motherboard using the IDE cables. If it is a 40 pin or 34 pin cable, then it will be an IDE interface device
What are two types of PATA data cables?
Under parallel ata, two types of ribbon cable are used. The 80-conductor ide cable has 40 pins and 80 wires Forty wires are used for communication and data, and an additional 40 ground wires reduce crosstalk on the cable. An older 40-conducror cable has 40 wires and 40 pins. the two types of cables are PATA and IDE cables which come in a 80-conductor IDE cable and a 40-conductor cable
How may drivers can be installed in a standard IDE cable?
2 drives per ide cable
Full meaning of IDE cable?
integrated drive electronics is the Full form of the IDE cable.
