Marketing description

Tripp Lite's P936-000, Serial ATA (SATA) to IDE converter, allows a standard parallel ATA hard disk drive, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD ROM, DVD + RW, etc, to be used with Serial ATA Controller cards or motherboards with Serial ATA ports, and meets the specification of Serial ATA 1.0 interface. Simply plug the 40-pin side of the adapter into the IDE drive 40-pin connector, and attach power and SATA cables to the appropriate connections...no software to load.

Key selling points

• Easily connect IDE/ATA drives to a SATA controller
• Compliance with Serial ATA Gen 1.0
• Master/slave device emulation support
• Supports PIO mode 0~4
• Supports Ultra DMA mode 0~7
• Supports UDMA data transfer rates of up to 150MBps
• Supports ATAPI Packet command set
• Supports 48-bit LBA addressing
• Supports additional ATA command for serial ATA SCR access
• Serial ATA power save mode supported
• Serial ATA BIST operation
• Supports hot-plugging