Digitus DS-33151 Service Manual

IDE - SATA

Converter

User Manual

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Introduction

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 form the host,
decodes the commands and converts 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 SATA 150 to PATA 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 SATA storage devices (DVD, DVD-RAM,

MO, CD-ROM, CD-RW, Hard Disk, …)

 100% hardware bridge converter to support PC and MAC

environment

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