Toshiba a210 manual Hd Dvd-Rom, HD DVD-ROM mode CD-ROM mode

1.4 Optical Disc Device 1 Hardware Overview

1.4.2 HD DVD-ROM

The HD DVD drive accepts 12-cm (4.72-inch) and 8-cm (3.15-inch) discs. At maximum, HD DVD-ROM reads HD DVD-ROMs at maximum 1x speed DVD-ROMs at maximum 8x speed and CD-ROMs at maximum 24x speed. It writes CD-R at up to 16x speed, CD-RW at up to 10x speed, DVD-R at maximum4x speed, DVD-RW at maximum 6x speed, DVD+RW at maximum 4x speed, DVD+R at maximum 4x speed, DVD+R (double layer) at maximum 2.4x speed, DVD-R (dual layer) at maximum 2x speed and DVD-RAM at maximum 3x speed.

The specifications of the HD DVD-ROM drive are listed in Table 1-3.
Item	HD DVD-ROM mode	DVD-ROM mode		CD-ROM mode
Data transfer rate (Mbytes/s)	33.3 (U-DMA transfer	mode 2)
	16.6 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2)
Access time (ms)	330		160	150
Average random access
Data buffer size (Mbytes)			8MB
	HD DVD:
	HD DVD-ROM
	DVD:
Formats supported	DVD-VIDEO, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM,
	DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL
	CD:
	CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROMXA,
	Photo CD (single/multi-session), CD-EXTRA, CD-Text
Table 1-3 HD DVD-ROM drive specifications

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