The 4-port Promise SATA300 TX4 SATA controller offers a low-cost solution for connecting up to four of the latest, high-performance SATA 3Gb/s disk drives to PC motherboards with a PCI interface. While drive capabilities continue to advance at a fast rate, the vast majority of available motherboards still use the PCI interface to connect peripheral devices. With the SATA300 TX4, users can benefit from a flexible solution that connects the most advanced drives to their existing system, the ideal future-proofing upgrade.

- 4 Serial ATA 3Gb/s Ports for support of up to 4 drives
- Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
- SATA Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ)
- Large LBA support for drives above 137GB
- Supports Serial ATAPI devices
- Disk Activity LED Headers
- Flexible future-proof upgrade for users with motherboards that only have a PCI interface

Device Support
• 4 Serial ATA 3Gb/s ports for up to 4 Serial ATA devices

PCI Support
• 66 MHz PCI bus supports up to 266MB/sec burst data transfer rate
• PCI 2.3 compliant

Serial ATA Support
• Supports up to 4 Serial ATA devices
• Supports up to 300MB/sec* transfers with CRC error-checking
• Compliant to Serial ATA Rev. 1.0a
• Compliant to Serial ATA II: Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0a, including
– Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
– Staggered Drive Spin-Up
– HDD Activity Indication
• Supports Serial ATA tagged command queuing (TCQ)
• Serial ATAPI Support

Large LBA Support
• Supports drives larger than 137GB

Onboard BIOS
• Auto-identifies and configures drive and device types; BBS Compliant; Flash-Upgradable

Operating System Support
• Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
• Red Hat Linux
• SuSE Linux
• Linux open source code

Physical and Environmental
• Low-profile form factor (HW): 2 x 4.69 inches (51 x 119 mm)
• Operating temperature: 32 to 122 F (0 to 50 C)
• Relative humidity: 5%-95% non-condensing