List of PATA - SATA Bridge Chips \ VOGONS

List of PATA - SATA Bridge Chips

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I was trying to make a list of all of the PATA - SATA Bridge Chips that were ever out there in devices you could use to attach PATA to SATA

Here's my start---

1Manufacturer   Chip        Direction        Notable Characteristics
2--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3JMicron        JM20330     Bi-directional   Most common chip today; widely cloned.
4JMicron        JMD330      SATA Host        Only connects legacy IDE drives to SATA motherboards.
5JMicron        JMH330      PATA Host        Only connects new SATA drives to legacy IDE motherboards.
6Marvell        88SA8052    Bi-directional   Support SATA II & ATAPI, better compatability than the "040"
7Marvell        88SA8040    Bi-directional   The Origional PATA SATA  Bridge
8Sunplus        SPIF223A    Bi-directional   Best compatibility with old Xbox/PS2 consoles, 10% slower that Marvell & Jmicron
9Silicon Image  SiI3811     Bi-directional   Supports ATAPI, hot-swap, and NCQ.  Fast.  Discontinued.
10Genesys Logic  GL831a      Bi-directional   Bridges SATA and PATA
11Genesys Logic  GL830       Multi-bridge     Bridges USB 2.0, SATA, and when in 128-pin packaging, PATA
12Acard          ARC-772     Multi-bridge     High-end chip that can bridge SCSI/PATA/SATA

Reply 1 of 2, by Beerfloat

Posted on Today, 20:05

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At first I was like ok a quick Google there must've been more of those. Surely the likes of Highpoint, LSI, Avago, VIA or some such might have had an IC for that.
But no. Your list looks to be pretty good. 95% of these things seem to be JMicron or Marvell.

Reply 2 of 2, by douglar

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Matze79 reported seeing a pata-sata bridge in a Canon fm4-4383 that has a chip labeled "bu19503kv", but I've never seen that, have not found anyone else that's seen it

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