EIDE

Also known as ATA-2, Fast ATA and Fast IDE, EIDE is short for Enhanced IDE and is the next generation of IDE interface that was developed by Western Digital and an interface commonly used on IBM compatible computers. EIDE supports data rates from 4 and 16.6 MBps. In addition to being faster than IDE drives, EIDE supports drives up to 8.4GB.

Supports faster PIO modes 3 and 4 as well as multiword DMA modes 1 and 2. ATA-2 also adds additional support for LBA drives that allow support for drives larger than 528 MB.

• Additional information can be found on our Interface Page.

Also see: IDE, Hard disk drive definitions, Motherboard definitions