Sony PCV-L630 manual Link Interface, Drives and Controllers, System Cmos, Rom

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VAIO Computer Reference Manual

i.LINK Interface

Ports	Two (one at front panel, one at rear panel)
Speed	Up to 400 Mbps
Chipset	TI TSB12LV22 and TSB41LV03 OHCI
Enable/disable function	From BIOS

Drives and Controllers

Diskette controller	765A-compatible (supports up to 2.88 MByte)
Diskette drive	1.44 MByte 3.5-inch MFDD
EIDE controller	Supports PIO Mode 4 EIDE drives and Ultra DMA/
	33 Mode drives
IDE hard drive*	17.0 GByte†
DVD-ROM drive	CD-ROM disc: 24X (maximum performance)‡
	DVD-ROM disc: 4.8X (maximum performance)

* Bus-mastering EIDE driver installed.

†GB means one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary.

‡Data on a DVD-ROM is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 2X at the innermost track to 4.8X at the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 1385 kbytes/s). The average data transfer rate is 3.6X (4986 kbytes/s). Data on a CD-ROM is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 10.5X at the innermost track to 24X at the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kbytes/s). The average data transfer is 18X (2700 kbytes/s).

System CMOS

Make and model	Award
ROM	2Mbit flash-ROM
Passwords	User and supervisor passwords supported
Recovery boot block	Supported
Power management	APM 1.2
Advanced features	ACPI-1.0 compliant hardware for use with APM and
	PNP BIOS APIs
Plug and Play devices	Supported with steerable DMA channels and
	interrupts
Special features	PC-98 ready, multi-boot, PCI add-in card auto-
	configure