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Since the original ATA interface is essentially just a 16-bit ISA bus in disguise, the bridge was especially simple in case of an ATA connector being located on an ISA interface card. The interface cards used to connect a parallel ATA drive to, for example, a PCI slot are not drive controllers, they are merely bridges between the host bus and the ATA interface. The term Integrated Drive Electronics refers not just to the connector and interface definition, but also to the fact that the drive controller is integrated into the drive, as opposed to a separate controller on or connected to the motherboard. The first such drives appeared in Compaq PCs in 1986.

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Together with Control Data Corporation (who manufactured the hard drive part) and Compaq Computer (into whose systems these drives would initially go), they developed the connector, the signaling protocols, and so on with the goal of remaining software compatible with the existing ST-506 hard drive interface. The first version of what is now called the ATA/ATAPI interface was developed by Western Digital under the name Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE). A single 2-drive ATA interface and a floppy interface was added to this system via the 16-bit ISA card.

Such basic motherboards could have been outfitted with either the ST-506 or ATA interface, but usually not both.

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IDE and ATA-1Įxample of a 1992 80386 PC motherboard with nothing built in other than memory, keyboard, processor, cache, realtime clock, and slots. This name was chosen to avoid possible trademark issues. The 'AT' in 'IBM PC/AT' is an initialism for 'Advanced Technology,' but that term does not appear in current or recent versions of the ATA specification it is simply 'AT Attachment'. The standard is originally conceived as 'PC/AT Attachment' as its primary feature was a direct connection to the 16-bit ISA bus introduced with the IBM PC/AT.

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It has largely been replaced by Serial ATA (SATA) in newer systems. For many years ATA provided the most common and the least expensive interface for this application. Because of this limit, the technology normally appears as an internal computer storage interface. Parallel ATA cables have a maximum allowable length of only 18 in (457 mm). After the introduction of Serial ATA in 2003, the original ATA was renamed Parallel ATA, PATA for short. As a result, many near-synonyms for ATA/ATAPI and its previous incarnations are still in common informal use. The ATA interface itself evolved in several stages from Western Digital's original Integrated Drive Electronics ( IDE) interface. The Parallel ATA standard is the result of a long history of incremental technical development, which began with the original AT Attachment interface, developed for use in early PC AT equipment. It uses the underlying AT Attachment ( ATA) and AT Attachment Packet Interface ( ATAPI) standards. The standard is maintained by X3/INCITS committee. It's unfortunate that Imation has dropped support for its legacy products in terms of downloadable drivers, but the move may have been based on a lack of interest and/or need for such.Parallel ATA ( PATA), originally ATA, is an interface standard for the connection of storage devices such as hard disks, solid-state drives, floppy drives, and optical disc drives in computers. Because the technology evolved the way it did, Imation threw in the towel, as Iomega finally did. USB flash drives were also fast-becoming a less expensive means to store/transfer data.

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Unfortunately for Iomega, CD burners were gaining popularity over the sometimes-problematic Zip drives and their 'Click Death' design flaw. The initial 100 MB Zip disks were 20 MBs shy of Imation's 120 MB SuperDisks, but they followed it with 250 MB Zip drives/disks, and eventually - the 750 MB drives/disks. It was more versatile than Iomega's Zip drive, in that it could read standard floppy disks - but Iomega eventually won the competition for market share. My Compaq Presario 5020 shipped with an Imation SuperDisk Drive, instead of the standard FDD. 'Soon you'll see SuperDisk Drives built into desktop PCs, notebooks, external drives - everywhere.