Introduction

The SATA2-EC10 is a single port Serial ATA II to ExpressCard Host Adapter. The SATA2-EC10 is designed to provide single port serial ATA II connectivity with minimal host overhead and host to device latency. The SATA2-EC10 supports a 1-lane 2.5Gb/s PCI Express bus and the Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0 Gb/s (300 MB/s).
Technical Specifications

Compliance

  • Serial ATA High Speed Serialized AT Attachment Spec. Revision 1.0a
  • Serial ATA II: Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0a Revision 1.2
  • Serial ATA II: Port Multiplier, Revision 1.1 and Revision 1.2
  • Serial ATA II: Electrical Specification, Revision 1.0
  • Serial ATA II: Cable and Connectors, Volumes 1 and 2
  • PCI Express Base Specification, Revision 1.1
  • PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification Revision 1.1

PCI Express Features

  • Supports 1-lane 2.5 Gb/s PCI Express
  • Internal native interface to 1-port
  • All registers appear in unified memory space
  • All registers accessible through I/O space
  • Full-chip command completion status accessible with single PCI Express access

Serial ATA Features

  • Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications
  • Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0 Gb/s
  • Supports SATA II Gen2i and Gen2m (External SATA Connection, eSATA)
  • Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
  • Supports First Party DMA
  • Supports Port Multipliers
  • 31 Commands and Scatter/Gather Tables on-chip
  • Protocol Override per Command
Computer Platform
  • NoteBook equipped with ExpressCard/34 or Universal slot
Operating System Requirements
  • Windows 2000/XP, Windows Server 2003,Mac
  • Drivers:
    • Non-RAID serial ATA drivers for Windows 2000/XP and Windows Server 2003
    • Non-RAID serial ATA drivers for Mac OS 10.3 and 10.4.
    • RAID 0, 1 serial ATA drivers for Windows 2000/XP and Windows Server 2003
    • For RAID 5, 10 you will need a Sil3726 SATA Port Multiplier and RAID GUI utility.
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