Bi-Directional converter for serial and parallel ATA. This Adaptor does it all, SATA Hard Drive to IDE Converter or IDE Drive to SATA Host Converter. This is a bi-direction converter for serial and parallel ATA translation. It includes the Serial ATA PHY, Link, Transport, anda Parallel ATA (application layer) controller. The Serial ATA Physical link and transport layers are compliant to Serial ATA 1.0. This conveter supports a 1.5 GHz data rate