Marketing description

The IDE to SATA converter (TU-IDES) allows you to connect IDE devices such as CD, DVD and hard disk drives to a Serial ATA port on your computer's motherboard.
Without software installation required, simply connect power and data cables to IDE devices to SATA connector on your computer.

Key selling points

• Connect any IDE CD, DVD or hard drive device to an available Serial ATA port
• Use your current IDE device on SATA motherboards
• Utilizes Serial ATA 1.0 and hot-pluggable technology
• Master/slave hard drive emulation supported
• Supports PIO mode 0-4 and ultra DMA mode 0-7
• Supports ATAPI packet command set, and 48-bit LBA addressing
• Supports additional ATA commands for serial ATA SCR access
• Power save mode built-in
• Serial ATA Built-in Self Test (BIST) ready