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Samsung HM160HX integrated USB

June 13th, 2010, 7:52

A previous post about a similar drive

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How can i convert it to sata for the DDI?

thanks

andy

Re: Samsung HM160HX integrated USB

June 13th, 2010, 19:15

The underside of the board has the USB-SATA bridge chip. The two long pairs of capacitively coupled tracks are the SATA Tx/Rx pairs.

If the chip is a JMicron JM20339, then see this reference design for pinouts:
http://www.hxwtek.com/upload/jm20329_st ... 20open.pdf
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