1.4 DVD-ROM Drive 1 Hardware Overview
Equium A60/Satellite A60/ Pro A60/A65 Maintenance Manual 1-15
1.4 DVD-ROM Drive
The DVD-ROM drive accepts 12-cm (4.72-inch) and 8-cm (3.15-inch) discs. The drive provides
high-speed data transfer, playing back a DVD at up to 8x speed and reading up to 10,820 Kbytes
per second from DVD-ROM and 3,600 Kbytes per second from CD-ROM.
The DVD-ROM drive is shown in Figure 1-5 and its specifications are listed in Table 1-2.
Figure 1- 6 DVD-ROM drive
Table 1- 2 DVD-ROM drive specifications
Item DVD-ROM
Data transfer rate (Mbytes/s) 33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2)
Access time (ms)
Average random access (ms)
Average full stroke access (ms)
100ms
Data buffer size (Kbytes) 192
Formats supported DVD-R/W, DVD-R (Read),DVD-RAM
CD-ROM, CD-R,
CD-R (Write), CD-RW (Write)