Interfacing an external attachment device to a computing device

摘要

An external Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) device (118) is coupled to a computing device (102) via an interface (200). Data is communicated to and from the SATA device and the computing device via a port (104) of a first type of the computing device, and power is provided to the SATA device via at least one port (106) of a second type of the computing device. There may be a plurality of SATA devices connected by the interface to the computing device. The first type of port may be a SATA port and the second type of port may be a USB port.