[plug] Do you have a large-capacity Laptop-sized IDE drive...?

[Michael Holland]

Kevin,
I think you make a mistake of confusing initialisms with the terms
from which they are derived.
e.g. "RAM" does not simply mean "random access memory".  ROMs  are
random access.

Terms like IDE take on their own meaning, which may differ from what
the inventor intended.

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Kevin Shackleton <kevins at reachnet.com.au> wrote:
> Aren't they properly called PATA drives?  IDE (Integrated Drive
> Electronics) is applicable to both Serial and Parallel "Advanced
> Technology" Attachment, though of course when the term IDE was first
> used (1986) only parallel was around.  IDE refers to having the
> controller on board (not just a few transistors) and replaced ST-506 and
> ESDI which had controllers on an ISA card slotted into the motherboard.
>
> Kevin.
>
> On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 17:45 +0800, Paul Antoine wrote:
>> Richard: note that Leon is after an IDE drive, not a SATA drive.
>>
>
>
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