Rosewill RC204 User Manual

IDE to SATA HOST Adaptor RC204

User Manual

IDE to SATA HOST Adaptor RC204

User Manual

IDE to SATA Host Adapter

1.Introtuction

This SATA-to-Ultra ATA/133 Converter 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 (such as 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 sent to the host.

The Converter Board supports the SATA Generation 1 transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s) on the

serial 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 ATAPI, ATA/133, ATA/100, ATA/66, ATA/33, EIDE and IDE 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

Power

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