Noun
pata (plural patas)
An Indian sword with an attached gauntlet.
PATA (uncountable)
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(computer hardware) Initialism of parallel ATA: a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk.
A bridge chip inside the external devices converts from the USB interface to PATA, and typically only supports a single external device without cable select or master/slave. Source: Internet
After the introduction of Serial ATA (SATA) in 2003, the original ATA was renamed to Parallel ATA, or PATA for short. Source: Internet
Buses such as Parallel ATA (PATA or IDE), Serial ATA (SATA), or SCSI fulfill that role in PC class computers. Source: Internet
Current terminology The terms "integrated drive electronics" (IDE), "enhanced IDE" and "EIDE" have come to be used interchangeably with ATA (now Parallel ATA, or PATA). Source: Internet
An example of primary storage. 40 GB PATA hard disk drive (HDD); when connected to a computer it serves as secondary storage. Source: Internet
ATA over Ethernet In August 2004, Sam Hopkins and Brantley Coile of Coraid specified a lightweight ATA over Ethernet protocol to carry ATA commands over Ethernet instead of directly connecting them to a PATA host adapter. Source: Internet