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4 wire power cable (PATA & Some SATA)

7 wire data cable (SATA)

15 wire power cable (SATA)

40 wire data cable (PATA)

80 Wire data cable (PATA)

A

Acoustic Management

Active, Power Mode

Actuator

Addressing

Advanced Power Management

APM (Advanced Power Management)

ATA AT(Advanced Technology) Attachment

ATAPI ATA Packet Interface

B

BIOS (Basic Input Output System)

Bus-master DMA

C

Cable, data, 7 wire (SATA)

Cable, data, 40 wire (PATA)

Cable, data, 80 wire (PATA)

Cable, power, 4 wire (PATA+SATA)

Cable, power, 15 wire (SATA)

CHS (Cylinder Head Sector)

CMOS

Command queuing

Controller

CSEL

cylinder

D

Device

DMA (Direct Memory Access) General

DMA, Single-word

DMA, Multi-word

DMA, Ultra

DMA, Bus-master

E

EIDE (Enhanced IDE)

EEPROM

Engine, spindle

F

Fixed Disk

Firmware

H

Hardware overview image

HDA (Head Disk Assembly)

HDA overview image

Head

Host adapter

Host protected Area

HPA (HPA Host Protected Area)

I

IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics)

Idle, Power Mode

I/O, Input Output

IORDY (Input Output Ready)

J

jumper

L

low-level format

LBA (Logical Block Addressing)

LBA28

LBA48

Logical Block Addressing

logical sector

logic-board

M

Master

Multi word DMA

N

Native command queuing

NCQ, Native command queuing

P

PCI

Power Saving

PATA (Parallel ATA)

PATA Power cable

PATA Data cable 40 wires

PATA Data cable 80 wires

Parallel ATA

PATAPI

physical sector

PIO (Programmed Input/Output)

Programmed Input / Output

Platter

S

SATA (Serial ATA)

serial ATA

SATA-1

SATA-2

SATA Data cable

SATAPI

SATA Power cable

SCSI

sector

Security

Singe word DMA

Slave

Sleep, Power Mode

S.M.A.R.T (Self Monitoring And Reporting Technology)

spindle engine

Standby, Power Mode

T

track

transfer mode

U

Ultra DMA

UDMA

Z

Zone Bit Recording

ZBR (Zone Bit Recording)