Erster SATA-Controller für CD/DVD-Laufwerke

Pressemitteilung ACARD Launches 2-Channel SATA Adapter - 6290A The World’s First SATA Adapter for CD/DVD Device Taipei, Taiwan – March 11, 2004 –ACARD, the SCSI/IDE, RAID and storage solutions provider, today launched the world’s first SATA adapter AEC-6290A for CD/DVD drives. The special SATA adapter contains ACARD’s exclusively developed chip ARC-770, so it can support both hard drives and CD/DVD drives. It is an SATA adapter with full functions on the market. Since the Japanese website PC Watch (http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp) and Taiwan’s PC DIY magazine announced the world’s first SATA bridge chip for ATAPI devices in early 2003, this exciting news has caught the industry’s attention, and has got immense responses from computer testing as well as discussion areas in websites. Now ACARD has applied this new technology to its SATA adapter AEC-6290A. Accordingly, AEC-6290A is the only SATA adapter that supports both hard drives and CD/DVD drives on the market. Unlike ATA-66, 100 or 133 that can support hard drives and CD/DVD drives at the same time, SATA interface is hard to support CD/DVD drives. There are only few adapters that can support via exclusive converters on the market. ACARD, with its many years of experiences in storage devices, its understanding of users’ needs and its belief in providing products of full functions, has launched the 2-channel SATA adapter AEC-6290A. This special adapter has compensated for the defects of common SATA adapters. The interior of AEC-6290A adopts the arithmetical structure of SCSI. It has the high efficiency of ACARD’s IDE products, and meanwhile occupies the least CPU resources. In operation it is more efficient than SATA or IDE ports on the motherboard, so it makes users feel quite easy, especially in game software or image editing. AEC-6290A fits the specification of Serial ATA 1.5Gbps. It has 2 SATA channels. Each channel connects a storage device and owns independent bandwidth. Therefore, there is no system suspension or delay during the busy access. Meanwhile it uses the 48-bit LBA technology to support a big hard drive (over 137GB). Moreover, it has Scatter/Gather function to let multitasking more efficient. Its PCI includes the instruction set like Bus Master, so it can enhance transfer quality. The 32bit/33Mhz PCI bus can reach 133MB/s of transfer rate. For the present IDE hard drives or CD/DVD drives, ACARD has also produced a SATA-to-IDE converter AEC-7900A. Simply through the converter, the original IDE storage device can be connected to AEC-6290A, too. That really saves the cost of replenishing storage devices. For the initial sale ACARD has launched a deluxe edition containing the SATA adapter AEC-6290A, the SATA-to-IDE converter AEC-7900A, and the burning software Ha! CD Burner (+DVD). The deluxe edition can let users upgrade to SATA with ease.