On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 19:38 -0700, Drew wrote:
The older ISA (now called PATA = Parallel ATA) has been replaced by SATA (Serial ATA). SATA has 3 speeds. Most new disks are either SATA 2 or SATA 3 speed.
IDE I assume you meant. :) ISA was the old bus PCI replaced.
Yes since IDE really means Integrated Drive Electronics and was a replacement for the FM HDD with their plug-in controller cards.