Originally Posted By: mlord
EDIT: Mmm.. I suppose the maker might have built-in
a SATA-to-IDE convertor chip, which could explain that.
And those chips often cause other problems, too.

Okay, so the bridge chip is indeed built-in,
according to page 6 of the product datasheet.

So one might reasonably expect these things to actually be IDE (ATA) compliant. heh.