Toshiba A200 Optical Drive Hardware Overview, DVD-multi Drive, DVD-Multi drive specifications

1.4 Optical Drive 1 Hardware Overview

1.4.2 DVD-multi Drive

This drive is a combination of CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM Drive. It is full-size and runs either 12cm (4.72- inch) or 8cm (3.15-inch) DVD/CDs without an adapter. This drive reads CD-ROM at maximum 24-speed, reads DVD-ROM at maximum 8-speed, writes CD-R at maximum 16-speed, writes CD-RW at maximum 4-speed, writes DVD-R at maximum 2-speed, writes DVD-RW at maximum 2-speed and writes DVD-RAM at maximum 2-speed.

Specifications for the DVD multi drive are described in table 1-3.

Table 1-3	DVD-Multi drive specifications
Item		Matsushita
		G8CC0001P710
ATAPI Burst (MB/sec)		33.3 (Ultra DMA MODE 2)
		16.6 (PIO MODE4, Multi word MODE 2)
Average access time (ms)		CD-ROM		150 (typ.)
		DVD-ROM 180 (typ.)
Data buffer (MB)				2
Speed (Read)r		CD-ROM	24x max. (CAV)
		DVD-ROM		8x max (CAV)
Speed (Write)		CD-R 16x max. (ZCLV)
		CD-RW		4x (CLV)
		HSRW	4x, 8x (CLV)
		DVD-R	1x, 2x (CLV)
		DVD-RW		1x, 2x (CLV)
		DVD-RAM		2x (ZCLV)
Supported Format		CD: CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW
		CD-ROMXA
		Photo CD, Video CD
		CD-Extra(CD+), CD-text
		DVD :DVD-VIDO, DVD-ROM
		DVD-R (3.9GB, 4.7GB)
		DVD-RW (Ver.1.1)
		DVD-RAM (2.6GB, 4.7GB, 9.4GB)
		DVD+R, DVD+RW

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