Advanced Technology Accessory. An ATA drive is contained within a PCMCIA Card and functions as a hard disk drive, storing data, running programs, etc.

Advanced Technology Attachment. The built-in system a PC computer uses to connect drives to the computer. You may have also heard it called IDE (Intelligent Device Electronics)—they mean the same thing. This is the most common interface for hard disks. The ATA interface has now been enhanced to support faster data transfers. See DMA for more information.

Advanced Technology Attachment. This is the protocol that is used by all IDE and EIDE devices. ATA comes in 3 different flavours, ATA is capable of 2.1 to 8.3 MB/sec transfers, ATA-2 is capable of 11.1 to 16.6 MB/sec, and Ultra-ATA is currently capable of 33.3 to 100 MB/sec. The newest version of ATA, UltraATA has three different settings, ATA33, ATA66, and ATA100.

the most common bus used to provide access to hard drives, also called IDE, more recent versions are ATA-2 (also called EIDE) and ATA-3

ATA stands for dvanced echnology ttachment specification. Also known as IDE ( ntegrated rive lectronics), this is a hardware interface standard widely used to connect hard drives, CD-Roms etc to a PC. Ultra ATA refers to one of the high speed versions of the ATA specification.

Advanced Technology Attachment interface with extensions (referring to a disk drive interface standard)

Advanced Technology Attachment. This is a disk drive protocol and standard interface standard based on the IBM PC ISA 16-bit bus that has been around for a long time which is also used on computers. The ATA specification specifies the power and data signal types between a computer's motherboard and the integrated disk controller and drive. ATA connections only supports a master and slave device meaning you can have two harddrives or a harddrive and CD/DVD-ROM. (You could have two ROM type devices on a chain, but in an XBOX this is not a logical setup.)

AT Attachement with Packet Interface

Advanced Technology Attachment, an interface specification for hard drives used in IDE RAID units.

Advanced Technology Attachment. A partial name of the ATA/IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) interface.  This interface was developed to provide for a way to connect storage devices to the AT bus.  As the name suggests, the drive electronics are built into the storage device itself.

Stands for "Advanced Technology Attachment." It is a type of disk drive that ...

Advanced Technology Attachment. is a type of memory used as mass data storage in data collection computers, PDAs and other consumer electronics. Technically, ATA memory is Flash memory, however ATA cards have a built in controller which manages image creation and burning.

Advanced Technology Attachment: Standard for drives that include a controller. It supports one or two hard drives and has a 16-bit interface. Also called IDE and parallel ATA. ATA/100 offers data transfer rates up to 100MBps.

Alliance for Technology Access.

A guide for storage devices that makes them usuable as if they were hard drive on the system.

A type of hard drive interface. Not as fast as SCSI, but fast enough for DV.

Short for AT Attachment. A hard drive with an integrated controller. There are multiple levels of ATA standards including the base-level 16-bit IDE, ATA-2 (Enhanced IDE), Ultra ATA (ATA33), ATA66 and ATA100. A good explanation and tutorial is available at PC Guide.

A dominant hard disk interface for the PC. Its full name is AT Attachment.

Acute Transition Alliance

Abbreviation for "for "Advanced Technology Attachment"] ATA is the common disk drive technology that puts the drive controller right on the drive itself. The are a number of ATA versions, from the original a.k.a. IDE) to the 33MBps ATA-33 (a.k.a. Ultra-ATA) to the newest standard, ATA-66 which operates at 66MBps.

"Advanced Technology Attachment," a storage interface designed over 15 years ago and now the de facto I/O standard for desktop PCs. Though adequate for low data-demand applications, the combination of increased CPU capabilities, greater application through-put demands, and faster, more capable hard drives, severely limits the future usefulness of this interface.

ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) is the official name for what the computer industry calls computer industry calls Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE).

AT Attachment and ATA Packet Interface. ATA has three alternate levels; the base level 16 bit IDE, ATA-2 (enhanced IDE) and Ultra ATA. For peripheral devices that are connected to the ATA-2 other than hard drives, the ATAPI defines the interface set of commands.

Advanced Technology Attachment. The standard low-cost device interface for desktop and laptop PCs.

AT Attachment (Same as IDE interface)

Advanced Technology attachment] An official name for the drive interface standard known as EIDE.

Interface spec for IDE drives.

Advanced Technology Attachment. This is the parallel interface used to attach hard drives, CD Drives, DVD Drives, etc to the majority of PCs on the market. This term is used interchangeably with IDE. It is slowly being phased out by Serial ATA.

term used to describe a camera, which supports the electrical interface standard, defined by the PC Card Association (formerly PCMCIA), known as ATA (AT Attachment). This is the mobile computing equivalent of the IDE standard for desktop computers.

A storage (hard drive, CD-ROM, etc.) interface more commonly known as IDE. The "AT" refers to the IBM-AT computer where this interface was first used....

ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) also known as IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), it is a disk drive implementation that integrates the controller on the disk drive itself. e.g. ATA100 enables the ATA throughput to reach 100MB per second.

Stands for AT Attachment and describes the standard for attaching devices to any AT style PC.

n. Acronym for Advanced Technology Attachment. ANSI group X3T10's official name for the disk drive interface standard commonly known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE). Also called AT Attachment.

Advanced Technology Attachment. The command protocol used with the parallel ATA and Serial ATA interconnects.

Advanced Technology Attachement

Advanced Technology Attachment, It is the primary standard for connecting storage to PC's. It is also known as IDE.

AT Attachment is a standard that defines how hard disk drives and similar drives can be attached to a PC. ATA is the formal name of what is commonly called IDE or EIDE. ATA describes how IDE and EIDE interfaces work with hard drives. Usually you will see ATA listed with a number behind it, such as ATA/33, ATA/66, or ATA/100. The number refers to the amount of data that can be transferred across the interface in megabytes per second. For more explanation of ATA, please see GG Buyer's Guide: Hard drives.

or AT Attachment. An interface for PC Hard Drives.

Advanced Technology Attachment - a disk drive interface standard based on the IBM PC ISA 16-bit bus but also used on other personal computers. The ATA specification deals with the power and data signal interfaces between the motherboard and the integrated disk controller and drive. The ATA "bus" only supports two devices - master and slave.

Advanced Technology Attachment (sometimes called Parallel ATA or IDE). A disk drive implementation that integrates the controllers on a drive. There are several versions of ATA, such as ATA-2 (EIDE) and Ultra-ATA (Ultra-DMA, ATA-33 or DMA-33).

AT Attachment, the AT was the first real PC/IBM computer with a hard drive as standard. ATA-1 was the first standard in IDE and it had the controller built into the drive. ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. Some motherboards now have ACPI2. ASIO - Audio Streaming Input Output, ASIO2 drivers are common now.

See IDE.

A standard for storage devices that lets them be treated as if they were hard drives on the system. Any ATA compatible media can be read by any ATA device.

A disk drive implementation that integrates the controller on the disk drive itself. There are several versions of ATA, all developed by the Small Form Factor (SFF) Committee: ATA: Known also as IDE, supports one or two hard drives, a 16-bit interface and PIO modes 0, 1 and 2. ATA-2: Supports faster PIO modes (3 and 4) and multiword DMA modes (1 and 2). Also supports logical block addressing (LBA) and block transfers. ATA-2 is marketed as Fast ATA and Enhanced IDE (EIDE). ATA-3: Minor revision to ATA-2. Ultra-ATA: Also called Ultra-DMA, ATA-33, and DMA-33, supports multiword DMA mode 3 running at 33 MBps. ATA/66: A version of ATA proposed by Quantum Corporation, and supported by Intel, that doubles ATA's throughput to 66 MBps. ATA/100: An updated version of ATA/66 that increases data transfer rates to 100 MBps. ATA/133: An updated version of ATA/100 that increases data transfer rates to 133 MBps (the theoretical limitation of the PCI bus). ATA also is called Parallel ATA. Contrast with Serial ATA.

AT Attachement device. This is more frequently referred to as IDE.

Abbreviated term for Analog Telephone Adapter. Typical home and single-line office phones, whether corded or cordless, use analog signaling to communicate with your local telephone company’s switch. An ATA takes those analog signals and converts them into data that can be transmitted over the Internet.

A device enabling standard analog phones to make and receive IP telephone calls. Back

Analogue Telephone Adaptor A hardware device that converts the signals from a standard analogue telephone into the digital signals that a VOIP device needs to communicate over the internet.

An adapter that connects to a high-speed Internet connection. It simply turns an analog phone into an IP telephone.

Analogue Telephony Adapter. Turns a regular phone into a VOIP phone.

(Analog Telephone Adapter) The Cisco ATA products are standards-based communication devices that deliver true, next-generation voice-over-IP (VoIP) terminations to businesses and residences worldwide.

ATA is an acronym for either A Telephone Adapter or Analogue Terminal Adapter. Normally associated with a VoIP service. An ATA allows you to insert a normal telephone into a network. The ATA gets configured with your VoIP details. )

(Analogue Telephone Adapter) Used to connect a standard telephone to a high-speed modem to facilitate VoIP and/or fax calls over the Internet.

Analog Telephone Adapter; a device by which you can connect a regular analog phone (wired or cordless) to the Internet to make and receive VoIP calls. It converts the analog signal from the phone to digital and is provided by VoIP providers such as Vonage or Lingo.

Analog telephone adaptor. A device that allows an analog telephone to connect to an IP phone system such as Cisco CME.

Analog Trunk Adaptor.

Analog Telephone Adapter. A device – typically measuring 5 x 7 inches -- that plugs into a broadband Internet connection and regular phone, enabling traditional home or office phones to make VoIP phone calls using the Internet.

Analogue Terminal Adapters (ATA) are hardware devices that act as a Gateway between analogue devices (regular headphones, cordless phones, or fax machines) and any IP interface, implementing VoIP protocols such as SIP or H.323.

Australian Teleservices Association Website

American Trucking Association

Acronym "Air Transport Association". The ATA adopts and maintains content protection standards for luggage that can be carried aboard commercial jetliners. InFocus offers a full line of carry cases (known as ATA cases) that meet or exceed ATA standards.

Africa Travel Association

Air Transport Authority

American Translators Association

American Teleservices Association. (www.ata-connect.org.)

Founded in 1936, it was the first, and today remains, the only trade organization for the principal U.S. airlines. The purpose of the ATA is to support and assist its members by promoting the air transport industry and the safety, cost effectiveness, and technological advancement of its operations; advocating common industry positions before state and local governments; conducting designated industry-wide programs; and assuring governmental and public understanding of all aspects of air transport.

American Taxation Association. This is the national professional association for tax professors in higher education.

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Aircraft Transportation Association - www.air-transport.org

The Association of Talent Agents.

Air Transport Association of America. Federal organization responsible for setting guidelines for testing of cases and containers. The ATA has set the standards for commercial airline shipping cases and containers.

Air Transport Association, the trade group for the airline industry, of which Southwest is a member.

Air Transport Association. The trade association of U.S. scheduled airlines, based in Washington.

Initials for Air Transport Association, an organization which set the U.S. military standards for the type of case which can be checked at the airport or shipped via common carrier. JELCO ATA Cases fall into the Spec #300 long life-reusable category; which, amongst other things, specifies that the case and contents must be able to survive 100 trips under normal operating conditions.

American Trucking Associations

Air Transport Auxiliary

Acronym for Air Transport Association.

atmosphere absolute; 1 ata is the atmospheric pressure at sea level; is measured with a barometer.

atmosphere absolute. Denotes gauge pressure plus the weight of the atmosphere. Used in gas calculations.