The DE2-TIGER from EKF is a quad port Serial ATA hostadapter, compliant with SATA 1.0 specification. The PMC mezzanine module can be optionally equipped with an 1.8-inch on-board hard disk drive. Hence the DE2-TIGER is a reliable mass-storage solution for rugged environments, suitable for any CompactPCI or VMEbus PMC carrier boards. The DE2-TIGER provides an extended BIOS, which enables the module to operate either as boot device, or as additional SATA controller in a system. In addition, the optional on-board SATA to Parallel ATA bridge allows for attachment of a legacy IDE (Parallel ATA) hard disk drive.