1 Hardware Overview

1.7 DVD Super Multi

1.7 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 or Ultra and High speed CD-RW at 10x speed and DVD-R at 8x speed and DVD-RW at 4x speed and DVD+R at 8x speed and DVD+RW at 4x speed and DVD- RAM at 3x speed.

The specifications of the DVD Super Multi drive are listed in Table 1-5.

Table 1- 5 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

2MB

 

(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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