Toshiba SATELLITE A60, A65 Dvd-R/-Rw, Hardware Overview DVD-R/-RW, DVD-R/-RW drive specifications

1 Hardware Overview 1.7 DVD-R/-RW

1.7 DVD-R/-RW

The DVD-R/-RW 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, and write CD-R at 16x speed and CD-RW at 4x speed and High speed CD-RW at 8x and DVD-R at 2x and DVD-RW at 1x.

The specifications of the DVD-R/-RW drive are listed in Table 1-5.

Table 1- 5 DVD-R/-RW drive specifications

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)
Average random	180	150
access
Average full stroke
access
Data buffer size	2
(Mbytes)
Formats supported	DVD:
	DVD-VIDEO,DVD-ROM,DVD-R(3.9G,4.7G)
	CD:
	CD-DA,CD-ROM, CD-R,CD-RW,CD-ROMXA,CD-1 Ready,
	PhotoCD(muitiSession),Video CD,CD-Extra(CD+),CD-Text

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