A channel may refer to any of the following:

  1. With ATA or IDE, a channel is the primary channel or secondary channel that an IDE drive (e.g., hard drive) uses to connect to the motherboard.

  2. When referring to a radio or TV a channel or station is a band or frequency used to transmit a station. For example, on FM radio in your area, you might tune into 101.1 MHz to listen to a rock station while 94.1 might be a country station.

  3. In communications, the channel is a path between two computers or devices.

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  1. With chat or IRC, a channel, which is also known as a room, is a location with a specific chat topic. For example, in the Computer Hope IRC chat our channel is #computerhope.

  2. With the IBM PS/2 computer, the channel is an expansion bus.

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