Technical Terms - Hardware (A-Z) - ATA

What does ATA stand for?

• Advanced Transfer Adapter

• Automatic Technology Access

• Analog Technology Adapter

• Advanced Technology Attachment

What was the purpose of the ATA interface?

• Connecting speakers to a computer

• Connecting hard drives and floppy disk drives to a computer

• Connecting printers to a computer

• Connecting monitors to a computer

What was the retroactive name given to the ATA interface after the introduction of SATA?

• PATA

• SATA 2.0

• ATA Retro

• Advanced Parallel Interface

How many connectors could the 40-pin ribbon cables used by ATA include?

• Two

• Five

• Four

• Three

What did the jumpers located on the drive next to the ATA connector designate?

• Device 0 or Device 1

• Device A or Device B

• Primary or Secondary

• Master or Slave

What did Device 0 represent in the ATA interface?

• Primary drive

• Secondary drive

• External drive

• Backup drive

Which revision of the ATA specification added support for other kinds of storage drives like optical drives and tape drives?

• ATA-4

• ATA-7

• ATA-8

• ATA-10

What was the final data transfer speed supported by ATA-8?

• 133 Megabytes/second

• 100 Megabytes/second

• 200 Megabytes/second

• 50 Megabytes/second

What eventually made the ATA interface obsolete?

• USB interface

• SATA interface

• Ethernet interface

• HDMI interface

What was another name for the ATA interface?

• Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) interface

• Serial ATA interface

• Advanced Drive Connector (ADC) interface

• Parallel Data Transfer (PDT) interface