Memory apparatus system connecting ATA port with multiplex SATA port and control method thereof

Abstract

The invention relates to an ATA port connecting multi-channel SATA port memory device system, mainly comprising an ATA control unit, an ATA / SATA conversion control unit and a SATA multi-channel control unit. A control method comprises the following steps that: a main or minor port of an ATA adapter is switched, and the port state of the ATA adapter is judged; a SATA multi-channel controller is controlled to establish connection with a memory device and identify the memory device; a target port of the SATA multi-channel controller is switched to, and the memory device is initialized; and after the initialization operation of the ATA port connecting multi-channel SATA port memory device system is completed, a main control end carries out data accessing operation to the memory device. The system has the advantages that the problem that an ATA port obtains a large amount of data accessing space under the condition of increasing no extra hardware cost is solved, and the multi-channel SATA memory device is controlled to access data through an initialization program and a data accessing program of the system, thereby achieving the aim of extending the multi-channel SATA port memory device on the ATA port.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a control system for storage device ports, in particular to a storage device system and control method for connecting ATA ports to multiple SATA ports. Background technique [0002] Storage devices such as hard disks, CD drives or DVD drives, and tape drives are connected to the computer system through interfaces as peripheral devices of the computer system. One of the most common interfaces is the IDE interface. Its full name in English is "Integrated Drive Electronics", which means "electronic integrated drive". IDE represents a type of hard disk. It has another name called ATA (AT Attachment). It is so called because it imitates the hard disk controller of an IBM AT computer in the integrated electronics of the drive. The official name is ATA (AT Attachment). In practical applications, people are also accustomed to use IDE to call the earliest IDE type hard disk ATA-1. This type of interface has been eliminated with the de...

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[0007] As mentioned above, currently ATA storage devices have been gradually replaced by SATA storage devices, and most manufacturers have stopped production in 2008, but there are still a large number of motherboards with ATA interfaces in use, which has caused a tight supply of ATA storage devices for a period of time

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