While the hard disk marketplace was anticipating that Parallel ATA, or IDE, interfaces would be phased out by the end of 2009, this is likely to happen as soon as the end of next year – or even ...

USB is a glorious thing. It allows you to hook up a wide variety of products ranging from temperature monitoring equipment to keyboards and mice to headphones to drives and far beyond. Today I’m ...

RAIDON announces its RAID ready SSD Enclosure with IDE interface this July. RAIDON RAID ready SSD Enclosure is well-known for its unique two replacement CF card slots and two RAID mode choices which ...

I recently found the remains of a project I started three years ago on my hard drive. The idea was to use the Raspberr-Pi GPIO pins in SMI mode (which stands for Secondary Memory Interface) to talk to ...

Every now and again there a few simple and somewhat useful bits of kit that come onto the market that assist in making slightly older systems and their components work with newer technologies. The ...

The integrated development environment (IDE) Ultra DigiDrive interface drive features a PC card (PCMCIA) slot that reads and writes to all of today's popular flash media formats. When used with the ...

Parallel ATA (IDE) uses 40 pins, not 26. 26 was for floppies. But it's a standard 40-pin "header" connector. Sometimes called "IDC". CF cards have the PATA interface on a 50-pin connector. I don't ...