Technical Specifications

 

Two key components

1). D-Pod.
2). Dual Port Serial ATA II to ExpressCard

1). D-Pod

  • Plastic made housing design.
  • Designed to hold and protect the 2.5" Serial ATA HDD.
  • Provides handle for swapping

2). Single Port Serial ATA II to ExpressCard

  • Compliance
    • Compliant with Serial ATA AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) Spec. Revision 1.0
    • Compliant with Bus Master Programming interface for IDE ATA Controllers Revision 1.0
    • Compliant with PCI Express Bus Spec. Revision 1.0a
    • Compliant with Serial ATA High Speed Serialized AT Attachment Spec. Revision 1.0a
    • Compliant with Serial ATA II: Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0a Revision 1.1
    • Compliant with Gen2i and Gen2m Serial ATA II: Electrical Spec. Revision 1.0
  • PCI Express Features
    • Supports 1-lane 2.5 Gb/s PCI Express
    • Internal native interface multiplexed to 2-port SATA II
    • All registers accessible in unified memory space
    • No supporting system error alarm such as SERR and PERR function
  • Serial ATA Features
    • Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0 Gb/s
    • Supports two independent SATA II channels (separate logic and FIFO)
    • Supports SATA II Gen2i and Gen2m (External SATA Connection, eSATA)
    • Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) on SATA II port
    • Supports Hot Plugging
    • Supports Port Multiplier with Command-based Switching on SATA II port
Computer Platfrom
  • NoteBook equipped with ExpressCard/34 or Universal slot
Operating System Requirements

Drivers supported by the following OS

  • Windows XP/2003/2008/Vista/7
  • Linux
    • FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.5 or later
    • OpenBSD OpenBSD 4.0 or later
    • Redhat/Fedora Fedora Core 5 or later
    • Suse Suse 10.0 or later
    • Gentoo Gentoo 2006.0 or later
    • Ubuntu Ubuntu 6.06 or later
    • RHEL RHEL 4.4 or later
    • CENTOS CENTOS 4.4 or later
    • Suse Enterprise Suse Enterprise 10 or later
    • Other Linux Distrbution Kernel 2.6.35 or later
    • Unix Solaris Solaris 10 or later
    • NAS FreeNAS FreeNAS 0.65 or later
    • NAS OpenFiler Opene-NAS or later
  • MAC OS X
    • *MAC OS 10.4.3 or later
    • MAC OS 10.5 or later

* Supported by (AHCI or IDE compatible mode) ; Support Partial function

Applications

Kit includes
  • SATA2-EC3421
  • D-Pod
  • CB-00434 --- eSATA to SATA cable
  • CB-00314 --- USB to SATA 15pin power cable
  • CD-title (Drivers for SATA2-EC3421)
  • User's Guide