Introduction
This Bridge Board is a converter solution for the Parallel Ultra ATA
Device. It has a standard 40 pin ATA port which can interface to IDE
device (hard disk, CDROM, DVD, CD-RW, etc). It accepts Serial ATA
commands through the SATA interface from the host, decodes the
commands and converts them to parallel ATA commands to the device.
Response from the device through the parallel ATA bus are deciphered,
processed and converted to SATA protocol and send to the host.
The PATA to SATA 150 Converter supports the Serial ATA Generation
1 transfer rate of 1.5GB/s (150MB/s) on the Serial ATA side and is
compatible with Ultra ATA-133 on the parallel ATA side.
Features
Overall Features
Compatible with Ultra ATA 133 / 100 / 66 / 33 specifications
Supports all types of ATATPI, ATA/133, ATA/100, ATA/66,
ATA/33, EIDE and IDE storage devices (DVD, DVD-RAM, MO,
CD-ROM, CD-RW, Hard Disk, …)
100% hardware bridge converter to support PC and MAC
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