1.4 DVD-ROM Drive

1 Hardware Overview

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)

100ms

Average full stroke access (ms)

 

 

 

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)

 

 

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Toshiba SATELLITE A60, A65, PRO A60 manual DVD-ROM Drive