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ATAPI standards. Hard disk interface IDE (Integrated Drive Electronies), also known as AT bus interface, is the new hard disk drive widely used as a interface. It was first proposed by the Texan and the Compaq company, which aims to hard disk controller embedded into the drive. October 1988, ANSI Working Group X3T9.2 of a committee started to discuss issues related to IDE. February 1993 published the standard 3.1 version, making it a formal ANSI standard, and given the name of a new ATA (AT Attachment). Conceptually, ATA and IDE have basically the same meaning.