Toshiba a210 manual Optical Disc Device, DVD Super Multi Double Layer, DVD-ROM mode CD-ROM mode

1 Hardware Overview 1.4 Optical Disc Device

1.4Optical Disc Device

1.4.1DVD Super Multi Double Layer

The DVD Super Multi drive accepts 12-cm (4.72-inch) and 8-cm (3.15-inch) discs. At maximum, the drive can play back a DVD at 8x speed, read CD-ROM at 24x speed, write CD-R at 24x speed and CD-RW at 4x speed, US CD-RW at 24x speed, High Speed CD-RW at 10x speed, DVD-R at 8x speed, DVD-RW at 6x speed, DVD+R at 8x speed, DVD+R (Double Layer) at 4x speed, DVD-R (Double Layer) at 4x speed, DVD+RW at 8x speed and DVD-RAM at 5x speed.

The specifications of the DVD Super Multi Double Layer drive are listed in Table 1-3.

Item	DVD-ROM mode	CD-ROM mode
Data transfer rate	33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2)
(Mbytes/s)	16.6 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2)
Access time (ms)	130	130
Average random access
Data buffer size (Mbytes)	2MB
	DVD:
	DVD-VIDEO, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R,
	DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL
Formats supported	CD:
	CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROMXA,
	PhotoCD (single/multi-session), CD-EXTRA, CD-Text
Table 1-2	DVD Super Multi Double Layer drive specifications

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