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ATA - IDE Interface Pinout Diagram at Pinouts

The document discusses the ATA/IDE interface used for connecting storage devices internally in computers. It details the 40-pin connector layout and pinouts, how devices are configured as master or slave on a single cable, and the transition to 80-wire cables with Ultra DMA standards to reduce crosstalk and enable faster transfer speeds.

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ATA - IDE Interface Pinout Diagram at Pinouts

The document discusses the ATA/IDE interface used for connecting storage devices internally in computers. It details the 40-pin connector layout and pinouts, how devices are configured as master or slave on a single cable, and the transition to 80-wire cables with Ultra DMA standards to reduce crosstalk and enable faster transfer speeds.

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ATA=AT bus Attachment. Parallel ATA used at the PC, Apple
Macintosh and some other computers. Now replaced by SATA.
Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA), is a standard interface for
connecting storage devices such as hard disks and CD-ROM drives inside
personal computers. Many terms and synonyms for ATA exist, including
abbreviations such as IDE, ATAPI, and UDMA. ATA standards only allow
cable lengths in the range of 450 to 900 mm, so the technology normally
appears as an internal computer storage interface. It provides the most
common and the least expensive interface for this application.
Pin Name Dir Description
1 /RESET Reset
2 GND Ground
3 DD7 Data 7
4 DD8 Data 8
5 DD6 Data 6
6 DD9 Data 9
7 DD5 Data 5
8 DD10 Data 10
9 DD4 Data 4
10 DD11 Data 11
11 DD3 Data 3
12 DD12 Data 12
13 DD2 Data 2
14 DD13 Data 13
15 DD1 Data 1
16 DD14 Data 14
17 DD0 Data 0
18 DD15 Data 15
19 GND Ground
20 KEY -
Key (Pin
missing)
21 DMARQ ? DMA Request
22 GND Ground
23 /DIOW Write Strobe
24 GND Ground
25 /DIOR Read Strobe
26 GND Ground
27 IORDY I/O Ready
28 SPSYNC:CSEL ?
Spindle Sync
or Cable
Select
29 /DMACK ?
DMA
Acknowledge
30 GND Ground
31 INTRQ
Interrupt
Request
32 /IOCS16 ?
IO ChipSelect
16
33 DA1 Address 1
34 PDIAG ?
Passed
Diagnostics.
Used for 80-
pin cable
detect.
35 DA0 Address 0
36 DA2 Address 2
40 pin IDC male connector
at the controller & peripherals
1
40 pin IDC female connector
at the cable
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37 /IDE_CS0 (1F0-1F7)
38 /IDE_CS1 (3F6-3F7)
39 /ACTIVE Led driver
40 GND Ground
Each cable has two or three connectors, one of which plugs into a controller that
interfaces with the rest of the computer system. The remaining one or two connectors
plug into drives. Parallel ATA cables transfer data 16 or 32 bits at a time. One
occasionally finds cables that allow for the connection of three ATA devices onto one
IDE channel, but in this case one drive remains read-only (this type of configuration
virtually never occurs).
For most of ATA's history, ribbon cables had 40 wires, but an 80-wire version appeared
with the introduction of the Ultra DMA/66 standard. The 80-wire cable provides one
ground wire to each signal wire. This reduces the effects of electromagnetic induction
between neighboring wires and enables the 66 megabyte per second (MB/s) transfer
rate of UDMA4. The faster UDMA5 and UDMA6 standards require 80-conductor cables.
This was done to reduce crosstalk. Though the number of wires doubled, the number of
connector pins remains the same as on 40-conductor cables. The connectors used for
80-way high speed ATA cables are not the same as the 40-pin connectors. Externally
they look the same, but internally they are much more complicated, with a grounding
rail along the body to earth all the extra shielding wires in the cable.
PATA Slave/Master configuration
If two drives attach to a single cable, the configuration generally sees one as a master
and the other as a slave. The master drive generally shows up ahead of the slave drive
when the computers operating system enumerates available drives. The master drive
arbitrates access to devices on the channel. Because of this, latency-sensitive devices
such as early CD-RW drives often benefitted from functioning as a master, and each
channel must have a master in order to function properly.
In a drive setting called cable select the drives automatically configure themselves as
master or slave. This is achieved by cutting wire 28 (on 40 wire cables, or wires 56 and
57 on 80 wire cables) between the two HDD/CDROM connectors. Some newer cables
have this done internally in the connectors. In this case, the two connectors are of
different colours.
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