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ATA / IDE interface connector pinout

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hard drive connector

ATA=AT bus Attachment. Used at the PC, Apple Macintosh and some other computers ????
40 pin IDC male connector at the controller & peripherals

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 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Name /RESET GND DD7 DD8 DD6 DD9 DD5 DD10 DD4 Dir Description Reset Ground Data 7 Data 8 Data 6 Data 9 Data 5 Data 10 Data 4 Data 11 Data 3 Data 12 Data 2 Data 13 Data 1 Data 14 Data 0 Data 15 Ground ? Key (Pin missing) DMA Request Ground Write Strobe Ground Read Strobe

40 pin IDC female connector at the cable

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10 DD11 11 DD3 12 DD12 13 DD2 14 DD13 15 DD1 16 DD14 17 DD0 18 DD15 19 GND 20 KEY 21 DMARQ 22 GND 23 /DIOW 24 GND 25 /DIOR

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26 GND 27 IORDY 28 SPSYNC:CSEL ?

Ground I/O Ready Spindle Sync or Cable Select DMA Acknowledge Ground Interrupt Request ? IO ChipSelect 16 Address 1 Passed Diagnostics. Used for 80pin cable detect. Address 0 Address 2 (1F0-1F7) (3F6-3F7) Led driver Ground

29 /DMACK 30 GND 31 INTRQ

32 /IOCS16 33 DA1

34 PDIAG

35 DA0 36 DA2 37 /IDE_CS0 38 /IDE_CS1 39 /ACTIVE 40 GND

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

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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. 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 computer"s 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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