Convert High Capacity SATA Hard Drive and SATA Storage Device to operate with IDE Host Controller! Attaches this Mini size Dangle board to the back of all types of Serial ATA Devices (such as Hard Disk, DVD, DVD-RAM, CD-ROM, CD-RW, MO, ….)and make them become IDE Device to work with IDE host Controller. This Bridge Board is a converter solution for the Serial ATA Device. It has a standard 22 pin SATA port which can interface to a Serial ATA device (hard disk, CDROM, DVD, CD-RW, etc). It accepts Parallel ATA (IDE) commands through the 40 pin IDE connector from the host, decodes the commands and converts them to a Serial ATA commands to the device. Response from the device through the SATA bus are deciphered, processed and converted to a prallel ATA protocol and sent to the host. The SATA-to-Ultra ATA/133 Converter Board supports the Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s) on the serial ATA side and is compatible with Ultra ATA-133 on the parallel ATA side.
This Bridge board can support HDD larger than 137GB. |