SATA - IDE
CONVERTER
Expansion | 111831
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1. Introduction
This bridge board is a converter solution for the Serial ATA device. It has a
standard 22 pin SATA port which can connect to a Serial ATA device such as
Hard Disk Drive, CD/DVD Disc, CD/DVD ROM and Blu-Ray Disc, Blue-Ray ROM. It
accepts Parallel ATA (IDE) command through the 40 pin IDE connector from the
host, decodes the commands and convert them to Serial ATA commands to the
device. Response from the device through the SATA bus are deciphered,
processed and converted to Parallel ATA protocol and sent to the host.
The converter board supports the SATA II transfer rate of 3.0Gbps on the Serial
ATA side and compatible with Ultra ATA 133 on the Parallel ATA (IDE) side.
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2. Features
SATA II 3.0Gbps Adapter Board (size 75mm x 26mm)
Supports any types of SATA devices like Hard Disk Drive, CD/DVD Disc,
CD/DVD ROM and Blu-Ray Disc, Blue-Ray ROM to work with IDE host
controller.
Convert SATA Drive like a standard IDE/ATAPI Drive
48 bits LBA can Break Capacity-Limit to Support HDD larger than 137GB
Compliant with Serial ATA 2.6
Supports IDE Master, Slave and Cable Select Mode
Supports SATA Hot-pluggable and SATA Power Save mode
ATA/ATAPI PIO mode data transfer
ATA/ATAPI UDMA data transfer rate of 150, 133, 100, 66, 44, 33, 25, 16.7
MB/s
ATA/ATAPI-7 Streaming feature set
100% OS-transparent hardware bridge converter to support PC, MAC and
Linux, no driver required.
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3. Installation
Step 1.
Connect Y-type power cable to J1 connector and PC
Power Supply.
Step 2.
Set J3 jumper on IDE Master mode or Slave mode or cable select mode.
Step 3.
Attaches 22 pin SATA connector (P1) to the back of SATA Device.
Step 4.
Connect IDE cable to J2 (40Pin connector) and Motherboard IDE Host.
Important Notice
J1, J2 and J3 are indicated on the bridge board, please refer to the bridge
board for installation.
J3 must be set on Master Mode for Booting device; the default is set to be
Slave mode.
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