Toshiba P205 manual Optical Disc Devices Hardware Overview, DVD Super Multi Double Layer

1.4 Optical Disc Devices 1 Hardware Overview

1.4.2 DVD Super Multi Double Layer

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, write CD-R at 24x speed and CD-RW at 10x speed, DVD-R at 8x speed, DVD-RW at 4x speed, DVD+R at 8x speed, DVD+RW at 4x speed, DVD-RAM at 5x speed, DVD+R DL at 2.4x speed, and DVD-R DL at 2x speed.

The specifications of the DVD Super Multi Double Layer drive are listed in Table 1-3.

Item		DVD-ROM mode	CD-ROM mode
Data transfer rate (Mbytes/s)		33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2)
		16.6 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2)
Access time (ms)		130	130
Average random access
Data buffer size (Mbytes)		2MB
		DVD:
		DVD-VIDEO, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM,
		DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL
Formats supported		CD:
		CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROMXA,
		Photo CD (single/multi-session), CD-EXTRA, CD-Text
Table 1-3	DVD Super Multi Double Layer drive specifications

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