Very cool! Now you can use an existing IDE port on your motherboard to add a modern SATA port! Why waste a PCI slot or add a large card when you can use a small simple adapter?
Serial ATA SATA to IDE Ultra ATA-100/133 Mini Converter. 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 can interface to a parallel Ultra ATA (IDE) hard drive devices . It accepts SATA commands through the Serial ATA 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. This 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.
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