Toshiba PRO A60, A65 Hardware Overview DVD Super Multi, DVD Super Multi drive specifications

1 Hardware Overview 1.9 DVD Super Multi

1.9 DVD Super Multi

The DVD Super Multi 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 speed and DVD-R at 4x speed and DVD-RW at 2x speed and DVD+R at 2.4x speed and DVD+RW at 2.4x speed and DVD- RAM at 2x speed.

The specifications of the DVD Super Multi drive are listed in Table 1-7.

Table 1- 7 DVD Super Multi 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
Data buffer size	2
(Mbytes)
Formats supported	DVD:
	DVD-VIDEO,DVD-ROM,DVD-R(3.9G,4.7G),DVD-RW(Ver.1.1),DVD-
	RAM,DVD+R,DVD+RW.
	CD:
	CD-DA,CD-ROM, CD-R,CD-RW,CD-ROMXA,
	PhotoCD(muitiSession),Video CD,CD-Extra(CD+),CD-Text

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