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Why does my 15g drive get reported as 13.9g?
Hard Drive Profile, Bootstrap/MBR, Partitioning, and Drive Assignments.
RAID explained at Anandtech.com?
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What is ATA?
Short for
A
dvanced
T
echnology
A
ttachment
, a disk drive implementation that integrates the controller on the disk drive itself. There are several versions of ATA, all developed by the Small Form Factor (SFF) Committee:
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ATA
: Known also as IDE, supports one or two hard drives, a 16-bit interface and PIO modes 0, 1 and 2.
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ATA-2
: Supports faster PIO modes (3 and 4) and multiword DMA modes (1 and 2). Also supports logical block addressing (LBA) and block transfers. ATA-2 is marketed as Fast ATA and Enhanced IDE (EIDE).
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ATA-3
: Minor revision to ATA-2.
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Ultra-ATA
: Also called Ultra-DMA, ATA-33, and DMA-33, supports multiword DMA mode 3 running at 33 MBps.
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ATA/66
: A new version of ATA proposed by Quantum Corporation, and supported by Intel, that will double ATA's throughput to 66 MBps.
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ATA/100
: An updated version of ATA/66 that increases data transfer rates to 100 MBps.
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ATA/133
: An updated version of ATA/100 that increases data transfer rates to 133 MBps.
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last modified: 2005-04-23 15:31:46