Works straight out of the box. I have Windows XP which recognised the docking station on plug-in and immediately loaded the necessary driver.
The unit is supplied with a mains adapter and USB lead - enough to get you going if you want to use it with SATA drives only. If you want to use it with PATA hard drives you will need to also order a 40-way IDE ribbon cable and power cable. As the unit is sold as a box that will do both PATA and SATA I would have expected the necessary cables to have been included, hence 4 instead of 5 stars. The box was supplied by Kikatek who delivered it promptly. It's a neat compact box that I would recommend.