VAIO Digital Studio Reference Manual
Drives and Controllers
Diskette controller | 765A-compatible (supports up to 2.88 MByte) |
Diskette drive | 1.44 MByte 3.5-inch MFDD |
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EIDE controller | Supports up to four EIDE drives (supports PIO Mode 4 |
| EIDE drives and Ultra DMA/33 Mode drives)* |
IDE hard drive† | 10.2 GByte‡ |
DVD-ROM drive** | DVD-ROM: 8X (maximum performance). |
| CD-ROM: 40X (maximum performance). |
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*Controller is ready to support ATA-66 drives by utilizing ATA-66-compliant interface cables and hard drives.
† 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 3.3X at the innermost track to 8X at the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 1385 kbytes/s). The average data transfer rate is 5.6X (7634 kbytes/s). Data on a CD-ROM is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 17.2X at the innermost track to 40X at the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kbytes/s). The average data transfer rate is 28.6X (4293 kbytes/s)
System BIOS
Make and model | Award-based |
ROM | 4 Mbit flash-ROM |
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Passwords | User and supervisor passwords supported |
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Recovery boot block | Supported |
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Power management | APM 1.2 |
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Advanced features | ACPI-1.0 compliant hardware for use with APM and |
| PNP BIOS APIs |
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Plug and Play devices | Supported with steerable DMA channels and |
| interrupts |
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Special features | PC-98 ready, multi-boot, PCI add-in card auto- |
| configure |
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