Toshiba A40 manual Hardware Overview DVD-ROM Drive, Specifications Toshiba G8CC0000R810, Dvd

1 Hardware Overview 1.5 DVD-ROM Drive

1.5DVD-ROM Drive

The DVD-ROM drive accommodates either 12 cm (4.72-inch) or 8 cm (3.15-inch) CD, CD- R/RW and DVD. It is a high-performance drive that reads DVD at maximum 8-speed, and reads CD at maximum 24-speed (3,600 KB per second).

The DVD-ROM drive is shown in Figure 1-6. The specifications of the DVD-ROM drive are described in Table 1-4.

Figure 1-6 DVD-ROM drive

Table 1-4 DVD-ROM drive specifications (1/2)

				Specifications
Item			Toshiba G8CC0000R810
		DVD-ROM		CD-ROM	DVD-RAM
Burst data transfer rate		16.7 (PIO Mode 4)
		16.7 (Multi-word DMA Mode 2)
(MB/s)
		33.3 (Ultra DMA Mode 2)
Average random access time (ms)		100		95	170
Average random seek time (ms)		95		90	120
Average random full strike access		160		160	350
time (ms)
Data buffer capacity (KB)			192
		DVD-ROM (DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-10, DVD-18)
	DVD	DVD-R (read), DVD-RW (read), DVD-RAM (read,
Supported		Version 2.1), DVD-RAM (read, Version 1.0)
		CD-Audio, CD+(E)G, CD-MIDI, CD-TEXT, CD-ROM,
formats
	CD	CD-ROM XA, CD-I, CD-I Bridge (Photo-CD, Video-CD),
		Multisession CD (Photo-CD, CD-EXTRA, CD-R, CD-
		RW), CD-R (read), CD-RW (read)

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