集成设备电路，Integrated Device Electronics，一般叫做IDE总线，但是更准确地应该是ATA。IDE总线是平行总线，在SATA（Serial ATA）引入后，Parallel ATA（IDE）被称为PATA.它一般会作为ATA硬件的接口，它的本意是指把“硬盘控制器”与“盘体”集成在一起的硬盘驱动器。把盘体与控制器集成在一起的做法减少了硬盘接口的电缆数目与长度，数据传输的可靠性得到了增强，硬盘制造起来变得更容易，因为硬盘生产厂商不需要再担心自己的硬盘是否与其它厂商生产的控

This book explains data recovery methods for SCSI and SATA/PATA hard drive in detailed. It explains tools available in the internet to perform data recovery. It also explains some non-traditional way to carry out data recovery. The book is written by

hdparm provides a command line interface to various kernel interfaces supported by the Linux SATA/PATA/SAS libata subsystem and the older IDE driver subsystem. Many newer (2008 and later) USB drive enclosures now also support SAT (SCSI