BAFO BF-5314 User Manual

Sata-to-ultra ata/133 converter board, Introduction, Installation

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SATA-to-Ultra ATA/133 Converter Board

1. Introduction

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 a
parallel Ultra ATA (IDE) device (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 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 side and is compatible
with Ultra ATA-133 on the parallel ATA side.

1.1. Features

1.1.1. 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, ….)


1.1.2. 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

Step 1. Set ATA device on Master mode
Step 2. Attaches 40 pin IDE connector to ATA Device
Step 3. Connect Y-type power cable to JR1 connector of the board and Power Supply
Step 4. Connect Serial ATA cable to CON1 connector and SATA Host
Step 5. Connect 2-Pin pin header to HDD LED Indicator in front panel

*** This board must attaches to IDE device. DO NOT power on this board without device
attached.
*** IDE mobile rack is NOT real plug & play device. We don't recommend this board work
with mobile rack. If you really like to use with IDE mobile rack, HDD must be connected
and power on. Don’t remove mobile rack from your system.

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