ATA/ATAPI -4, ATA/ATAPI -5, ATA/ATAPI -6, ATA/ATAPI -7 (SATA)
Why is there confusion between EIDE and SCSI drive interface standards
The drive interface that uses an 80-conductor ribbon cable is IDE. IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics, an interface commonly used to connect hard disks and optical drives to computers.
atapi-4, atapi-5, atapi-6
ATAPI-5, ATAPI-6, and ATAPI-7 ATAPI-5, ATAPI-6, and ATAPI-7
SCSI
A CD drive can interface with a mother board using an EIDE, SATA or SCSI interface.
EIDE cable uses a 40-pin connector at the end of the cable to interface with the drive.
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
Geoff Housers mom The three common interface standards for a CD drive are EIDE (aka parallel ATA), serial ATA, and SCSI interface with a host adapter. You can also hook up a portable or external drive via USB, Fire Wire, or a SCSI port.
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
Modern hard drives connect to the hard drive using a SATA cable. Older ones use a larger, slower IDE cable.
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.