ACARD unveils 16x DVD duplicator controller

Tyan introduces i7221 board for servers on P4 LGA775 CPUs

ACARD unveils 16x DVD duplicator controller

ACARD Technology unveiled its new PCI controller for DVD duplicators, ARS-2033P.

• Dedicated IDE–IDE duplicator controller
• Independent IDE channel for higher throughput
• Support for 3.5" HDD for data storage and prompt backup
• Firmware upgrades
• Support for 16x DVD recorders

The controller enables to create systems that can record up to 7 CD/DVD discs from a single source. According to the press release, the controller supports recording onto DVD devices from NEC, Pioneer, SONY, Lite-On, BenQ, etc.

Brief specs:

• ACARD ATP-867 IDE controller
• 64 MB DDR SDRAM
• 2 x LCD displays (16 colors)
• 2 Mbit firmware flash

Supported drives:

Tyan introduces i7221 board for servers on P4 LGA775 CPUs

Tyan Computer introduced adaptable platform for 1-way rackmount servers — Tomcat i7221 (S5150) — based on Intel E7221 Copper River chipset (Pentium 4 Prescott LGA775).

• Chipset:
  • E7221 Northbridge
  • ICH6R Southbridge
• Dual-channel, DDR333/400 SDRAM DIMM, up to 4 GB of unbuffered ECC/non-ECC
• Expansion slots:
  • PCI-X 64-bit 133/100/66 MHz
  • Proprietary 200-pin SO-DIMM
  • PCI Express, PCI-X, PCI
  • 32-bit 33 MHz PCI 2.3 slot
• I/O
  • HDD
  • 4 x USB 2.0 in 2 headers
  • 1 x COM header
  • 1 x LPT header
• Backpanel I/O
  • PS/2 keyboard and mouse
  • 2 x USB 2.0
  • 15-pin D-Sub
  • 1 x COM
  • 2 x RJ45 10/100/1000 Base-T
• Integrated PCI IDE (ICH6R)
• 1 channel for 2 devices
• Up to 4 x ATA-100/66/33 devices
• SATA (ICH6R)
• 4 x SATA host controllers
• RAID 0,1
• 8-bit graphics in MCH
• LAN (2 GbE), 2 x Broadcom BCM5751 PCI Express with ASF 2.0
• ATX form-factor, 304.8x243.8 mm

As far as I know "adaptable" means a set of expansion boards, including:

4-port TARO SATA board	1-channel TARO RAID board
2-channel TARO RAID board

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