Bi-directional SATA to IDE Adapter The NL-SATADUALADAPT is a bi-directional converter for serial and Parallel ATA translation. The Serial ATA physical link and transport layers are compliant to serial more→ATA 1.0. The NL-SATADUALADAPT converter supports a 1.5GHz data rate. The application layer supports both the ATA register command set and packet command set which could drive both hard disk drive and ATAPI optical storage such as CR-ROM CD-RW DVD-ROM DVD-RW etc. The Serial ATA and the Parallel ATA application layer support both host and device operation. Easy to install and setup simply connect devices and slide switch to correct position. The switch works by selecting which mode the IDE