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UATA

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I was redirected to this article from "UATA" but the article does not have this text anywhere in it. Even if its another name for something I am thinking it would be handy to include it... anyone know about UATA and could mention it in the article? 138.32.241.4 (talk) 03:33, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

How were you redirected? UATA does not redirect here. (Added: No, I'm wrong. It does redirect here. Uata is a different topic though. I probably typed it in all l/c.) I find very very few uses of this abbreviation in the storage interface area, but it appears it has been a common shortening of "Ultra ATA". See here [1] for example. At least in that case, it appears to have been WD's name for a proprietary extension, intro'd in 2000, to ATA-5, bringing it up to 100 MB/s before ATA-6 was an official standard (2002). I believe WD had a history of this sort of thing, introducing products running at the next standard's speed before the next standard came out, but I have no references for that assumption beyond this one. In any case I'll go ahead and add a little subsection about "UATA" or "Ultra ATA" to the "History and terminology" section. And probably the Uata article needs an "about" template. @Tom94022:, what do you think? (Darn, I thought we were pretty much done making changes to this thing! ;) ) Jeh (talk) 04:00, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello! I've copyedited the Parallel ATA § Ultra ATA section a bit; the biggest introduced change was to have speed improvements refer to the Parallel ATA interface itself, as the ATA/ATAPI standard might be wrongly intepreted as the actual device command sets. Hope you agree with these changes. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 06:35, 26 March 2015 (UTC)