EIDE & IDE

[leske]

What is the difference between EIDE and IDE?

 

[Coyote]

The EIDE is newer. The "E" stands for enhanced. I'm guessing it just supports higher transfer rates. Ex. ATA 100 v. ATA 133 or 166

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[grafixmonkey]

I also sometimes see IDE refer to any and all devices that use the IDE protocol - including ATA 66/100/133, and SATA. When I see that, the site I see it on, usually some small reseller that carries server/workstation parts, is using it to distinguish ATA 66/100/133 and SATA hardware from SCSI hardware. They then use ATA or PATA to refer to parallel hardware (ATA 66/100/133) and SATA to refer to serial ATA. (but they classify everything except SCSI as 'IDE'.)