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Toshiba A100 St2311 Sata-
Hard drive ST2311 interface
Historical Word serial interfaces connect a hard disk drive to a bus adapter with one cable for combined data/control. (As for all early interfaces above, each drive also has an additional power cable, usually direct to the power supply unit.) The earliest versions of these interfaces typically had an 8 bit parallel data transfer to/from the drive, but 16-bit versions became much more common, and there are 32 bit versions.