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    There is another adapter recently found to work.

    It has the same board number, and does appear to use similar components (albeit different layout).

    What are the details for the IC on your board.

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    Postage was US$2.07 per board. Oh I had to fork out US$0.70 for a SATA cable and US$0.70 for a Molex-SATA power adaptor too.

    I ordered them only a couple of days ago. In my excitement I actually forgot to ask what the chipset on the boards is

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    Have these arrived yet?

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    Arrived finally.

    Yes they arrived on Wednesday (finally), however I don't have a SATA drive to test them with at the moment
    They look identical to working one, aside from Q1 not being fitted.
    Happy to post one to you.

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    No need thanks. Just curious if it also works.

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    The adaptors I recently bought (see post #6) do not work 'out of the box'. Since the working adaptor is identical but with the board fully populated, including a couple of 0ohm resistors (jumpers), I'm hoping that it is something to do with 'cable select' vs 'master'.
    Unfortunately I can't seem to find the SunplusIT SPIF223A-HL022 datasheet.
    I'm sure someone posted it here or to the mailing list (Darren?). Could you please repost it.

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    Unfortunately no data sheet, just the product overview from their website. Like most chips these days any actual information on the "guts" of how a chip works seems very devoid on the net - at least to the general population.

    I have, however, filled in the request form on the SunPlus website asking for any available datasheets so we shall see what happens. The website mentions you can request datasheets so maybe they are friendly enough to oblige.
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    Skolink I have emailed you a copy of the datasheet I have (@paradise).

    Hope it helps.

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    Thanks

    Awesome thankyou, I searched the web for ages for that. Can I post it here or did you get it through some NDA? You wouldn't happen to have the reference design also?

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    I was unable to upload it as when I tried I kept getting file too big messages.

    I found the sheet by google search.

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