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unusual facts about Parallel ATA


3ware

In April 2004, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) acquired 3ware for $150 million in cash and became an AMCC product line brand (manufacturing RAID controllers for Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, and Parallel ATA devices).


Netgear SC101

The original SC101 model could hold one or two disks (sold separately) using Parallel ATA (known as "IDE" at the time) and had a 100 Mbit/sec Ethernet over twisted pair interface.

Ribbon cable

For personal computers, this size is used today in floppy-disk-drive cables and older or custom Parallel ATA cables.


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