Not one to be constrained by specifications, Montac decided to construct an ATA cable that was well over the 18 inch maximum length. PATA cables use 80 conductor wire, even though they only have ...

BENFEI SATA III cable is designed to connect motherboards and host controllers to internal Serial ATA hard drives and DVD drives, quickly upgrading your computer for expanded storage. Please be ...

and disk drives used a parallel ATA (PATA) cable to connect to the motherboard. See Centronics and SATA. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

There is no need for a master or slave distinction with SATA drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own SATA cable. Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the ...