Toshiba A65, PRO A60, SATELLITE A60 manual DVD Dual, DVD-Dual drive specifications

1.8 DVD Dual 1 Hardware Overview

1.8 DVD Dual

The DVD-Dual 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 10x speed and DVD-R/+R at 4x speed and DVD-RW at 2x speed and DVD+RW at 2.4x speed.

The specifications of the DVD-Dual drive are listed in Table 1-6.

Table 1- 6 DVD-Dual drive specifications

Item	DVD-ROM mode	CD-ROM mode
Data transfer rate	33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2)
(Mbytes/s)	16.7 (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-ROM,DVD-R ver2.00 for General (Read/Write), DVD-RW
	Ver.1.0&1.1&1.2(Read/Write),DVD+R(Read/Write),DVD+RW(Read/Write
	)
	CD:
	KODAK Photo CD Single and Multi-Session,CD-Extra(CD+),Mixed
	CD,Video CD, CD-R discs (Read/Write), CD-RW , CD test data.

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