Satellite A200/Satellite Pro A200 4-21
Operating Basics
■If the disc is poor in quality, dirty or damaged, writing or rewriting errors
may occur. Be careful to check the disc for dirt or damage before you
use it.
■The actual number of rewrites to CD-RW or DVD-RW/+RW/-RAM is
affected by the quality of the disc and the way it is used.
■There are two types of DVD-R: authoring and general use discs. Do not
use authoring discs. Only general use discs can be written to by a
computer drive.
■We can support only Format 1 of DVD-R DL. Therefore you can not do
the additional writing. If your data is under DVD-R (SL) capacity, we
suggest to use DVD-R (SL) media.
■You can use DVD-RAM discs that can be removed from a cartridge and
DVD-RAM discs designed without a cartridge. You cannot use a disc
with a 2.6 GB single-sided capacity or 5.2 GB double-sided capacity.
■Other DVD-ROM drives for computers or other DVD players may not be
able to read DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW/-RAM discs.
■Data written to a CD-R/DVD-R/+R disc cannot be deleted either in whole
or in part.
■Data deleted (erased) from a CD-RW and DVD-RW/+RW/-RAM disc
cannot be recovered. Check the content of the disc carefully before you
delete it. If multiple drives that can write data to discs are connected, be
careful not to delete data from the wrong drive.
■In writing to a DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW disc, some disc space is required
for file management, so you may not be able to write the full capacity of
the disc.
■Sinc e the disc is ba sed o n the DVD- R/-R W sta nda rd, i t wil l be f ille d wit h
dummy data if the written data is less than about 1 GB. Even if you write
only a small amount of data, it might take time to fill in the dummy data.
*DVD-RAM DVD Specifications for DVD-RAM Disc for
Version 2.0, Version 2.1 or Version 2.2
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Hitachi Maxell Ltd.
*DVD Multi drive and DVD Super Multi can use DVD-
RAM.
DVD+R (Double
Layer) MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
DVD-R (Dual Layer) MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL COPRORATION
DVD-R Label Flash FUJIFILM Corporation
DVD+R Label Flash FUJIFILM Corporation