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for connecting . storage. devices such as . hard disks. and . CD-ROM. drives inside . personal computers. Many synonyms and near-synonyms for ATA exist, including abbreviations such as . IDE. and . ATAPI. Also, with the market introduction of . Serial ATA. in 2003, the original ATA was . retroactively renamed. Parallel ATA (PATA). ................
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