BAFO BF-5320 - Manual

Serial ATA 2 Port CardBus Adapter
1. Introduction
This Serial ATA 2 Port CardBus Host Adapter is a 32bit PC Card (CardBus) with
dual, fully compliant Serial ATA ports. The SATA port can access SATA storage
media such as hard disk drive, floppy disk drive, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM,
DVD-RAM.
This adapter can be used to upgrade your notebook computer to have dual Serial
ATA Channels. It accepts host commands through the CardBus, processes them
and transfers data between the host and Serial ATA devices. PC Card should be
connected to SATA target device and will take the data, serialize it and output it for
transmission over the SATA interface. SATA PC Card can control two independent
Serial ATA channels. Each channel has its own Serial ATA bus and will support one
Serial ATA device.
The board supports a 32-bit PC Card interface and the Serial ATA Generation 1
transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s).
It comes completely with drivers for Windows 98, Windows Millennium,
Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and XP.
1.1. Features
1.1.1. PC Card Interface
Integrated DMA engines.
32 bit CardBus fully compliant.
1.1.2. High Speed Serial ATA Interface
Dual high speed Serial ATA interface ports, each supporting 1st
generation Serial ATA data rates (1.5Gb/s).
Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications.
Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver.