SATA hard drives considered as IDE?

[Algere]

Whenever I hear someone say something along the lines of "Should I buy a SATA hard drive or save money & stick with a IDE hard drive" it sounds as if SATA hard drives aren't (E)IDE devices.

I assumed SATA was still (E)IDE with the only difference being the interface e.g. SATA/PATA, a bridge chip (except Seagate),no master/slave configuration, and power requirements. As the rest of the components that makes up a PATA (E)IDE hard drive are pretty much the same as a hard drive utilizing SATA technology.

So am I wrong to assume a SATA hard drive is still a (E)IDE device?

EDIT: More confusion, WD's website list interface type between SATA/PATA Special Edition hard drives as SATA & EIDE while Maxtor has SATA & Ultra ATA/133 listed under "ATA Hard Drives" section.

 

[Zepper]

They should be saying SATA or PATA - both are IDE drives.
.bh.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Still considered as a form of IDE, But the OS will see it as a SCSI device.


That ought to confuse someone a little more..

 

[Algere]

Originally posted by: GonzoDaGr8
Still considered as a form of IDE, But the OS will see it as a SCSI device.


That ought to confuse someone a little more..

Think when I had my SATA hard drives connected to a onboard Promise SATA controller it was displayed as a Serial ATA device with Serial ATA "ATA Mode" Drivers installed (as there are 2 seperate sets of drivers for this particular controller; ATA Mode & RAID)

Presently it's setup as a RAID array connected to a VIA SATA controller which now as you said under windows is displayed as a SCSI device.