Digitus DS-33151-1 User guide

IDE - SATA

CONVERTER

User Manual

DS-33151-1

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. Responses 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

 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, MAC and Linux

environment

Serial ATA Features

 Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications

 Supports Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate 1.5Gb/s