BAFO BF-5320 User Manual

Serial ATA 2 Port CardBus Adapter

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1. Introduction

This Serial ATA 2 Port CardBus Host Adapter is a 32bit PC Card (CardBus) with

dual, fully compliant Serial ATA ports. The SATA port can access SATA storage

media such as hard disk drive, floppy disk drive, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM,

DVD-RAM.

This adapter can be used to upgrade your notebook computer to have dual Serial

ATA Channels. It accepts host commands through the CardBus, processes them

and transfers data between the host and Serial ATA devices. PC Card should be

connected to SATA target device and will take the data, serialize it and output it for

transmission over the SATA interface. SATA PC Card can control two independent

Serial ATA channels. Each channel has its own Serial ATA bus and will support one
Serial ATA device.

The board supports a 32-bit PC Card interface and the Serial ATA Generation 1

transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s).

It comes completely with drivers for W indows 98, Windows Millennium,
Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and XP.

1.1. Features

1.1.1. PC Card Interface

Integrated DMA engines.

32 bit CardBus fully compliant.

1.1.2. High Speed Serial ATA Interface

Dual high speed Serial ATA interface ports, each supporting 1st

generation Serial ATA data rates (1.5Gb/s).

Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications.

Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver.

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Independent 256-byte FIFOs (32 bit * 64 deep) per Serial ATA channel for

host reads and writes.

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1.2. Package Contents

Serial ATA 2 Port CardBus Host Adapter

This User’s Manual

Driver CD

2. Software Installation

To use this CardBus adapter, the host computer must be equipped with one free

PCMCIA Card Type II or Type III slot. This section provides the information on how to

install the drivers of Serial ATA 2 Port CardBus Host Adapter for the Windows

operating systems:

2.1. Windows NT installation

1. Power off the system. Insert Serial ATA 2 Port CardBus into an available

CardBus slot. Connect serial ATA cable(s) between the Serial ATA 2 Port

CardBus and the serial ATA device(s). Power up the system.

2. After OS boots up, click 'Start'.

3. Under 'Settings', click 'Control Panel'.

4. Select 'SCSI Adapters' from the Control Panel.

5. Select the 'Drivers' tab and click 'Add'.

6. Click 'Have Disk'.

7. Insert the Driver CD into D: (D: represents CD-ROM) and press 'Enter'.

8. Choose 'Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATALink Controller' and click 'OK'.

9. After the driver installation has completed you can follow the instructions in

section 2.3 to verify controller was installed correctly.

2.2. Windows 2000/XP installation

1. Power off the system. Insert Serial ATA 2 Port CardBus into an available

CardBus slot. Connect serial ATA cable(s) between the Serial ATA 2 Port

CardBus and the serial ATA device(s). Power up the system.

2. During OS boot up, Windows will display the 'Found New Hardware Wizard'.

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