and disk drives used a parallel ATA (PATA) cable to connect to the motherboard. See Centronics and SATA. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Integrating the Serial ATA high-speed interface, the latest SiS964 South Bridge chipset supports dual-channel parallel PATA with two independent Serial ATA 150 ports, providing a 150MB/Sec data ...