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From: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE drives: are the interfaces all the same?
Message-ID: <14515@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 17:35:30 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.133535.23517@noao.edu>
Reply-To: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Sep13.133535.23517@noao.edu> grandi@noao.edu (Steve Grandi  CCS) writes:
> 
> The ribbon cables are not even the same width!  Is the IDE interface
> "standard"?  Should I be able to fudge a cable to make this drive
> work?
> 

Technically IDE is not an interface.  It simply states that the controller is
on the drive (IDE = integrated drive electronics).  

IDE drives may have SCSI, AT, or XT interfaces.  Even ESDI in some way can be
called an IDE drive but usually isn't.
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