Full Version: hard drive and EIDE interface
A friend asked me if the Maxtor L01V200 PATA hard drive would work with an EIDE interface? Can someone explain to me what's an EIDE interface? TIA.
It's the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_IDE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_IDE
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(EIDE) — an extension to the original ATA standard again developed by Western Digital — allowed the support of drives having a storage capacity larger than 528 megabytes (504 mebibytes), up to 8.4 gigabytes. Although these new names originated in branding convention and not as an official standard, the terms IDE and EIDE often appear as if interchangeable with ATA. This may be attributed to the two technologies being introduced with the same consumable devices — these "new" ATA hard drives.
With the introduction of Serial ATA around 2003, conventional ATA was retroactively renamed to Parallel ATA (P-ATA), referring to the method in which data travels over wires in this interface.
With the introduction of Serial ATA around 2003, conventional ATA was retroactively renamed to Parallel ATA (P-ATA), referring to the method in which data travels over wires in this interface.
QUOTE(NARC @ 6-1-07, 10:07am) 
Thanks NARC! Didn't know the two were the same.
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