Editing Parallel ATA (section)

=== EIDE and ATA-2 ===
{{redirect|EIDE||Eide (disambiguation)}}

In 1994, about the same time that the ATA-1 standard was adopted, Western Digital introduced drives under a newer name, Enhanced IDE (EIDE). These included most of the features of the forthcoming ATA-2 specification and several additional enhancements. Other manufacturers introduced their own variations of ATA-1 such as "Fast ATA" and "Fast ATA-2".

The new version of the ANSI standard, ''AT Attachment Interface with Extensions ATA-2'' (X3.279-1996), was approved in 1996. It included most of the features of the manufacturer-specific variants.<ref>{{cite web |title=The PC Guide: ATA (ATA-2) |url=http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/stdATA2-c.html |access-date=2008-08-23 |author=Charles M. Kozierok |date=2001-04-17}}</ref><ref name=ATA2>{{cite book |last=Technical Committee T13 AT Attachment |title=AT Attachment Interface with Extensions (ATA-2) |publisher=Global Engineering Documents |year=1996}}</ref>

ATA-2 also was the first to note that devices other than hard drives could be attached to the interface:
{{blockquote|3.1.7 Device: Device is a storage peripheral. Traditionally, a device on the ATA interface has been a hard disk drive, but any form of storage device may be placed on the ATA interface provided it adheres to this standard.|''AT Attachment Interface with Extensions (ATA-2)'', page 2<ref name=ATA2/>}}