Rosewill RC203 User Manual

SATA to IDE HOST Adaptor RC203

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User Manual

IDE to SATA HOST Adaptor RC203

IDE to SATA Host Adapter

1.Introtuction

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 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-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.

1.Features

1.1.Overall Features

• Compatible with Ultra ATA 133 specifications.

• Supports all types of SATA storage devices. (DVD, DVD-RAM, MO, CD-ROM, CD-RW,

Hard Disk, ….)

1.2. Serial ATA Features

• Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications.

• Supports Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate of 1.5Gb/s.

• Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver.

2. Installation

1. Decide the master or slave of this future IDE device

and choose the right choice by jumper.

Master

Slave