1 Hardware Overview

1.4 Optical device Drives

1.4Optical device Drives

?DVD-ROM & CD-RW drive

?DVD Super Multi drive

1.4.1DVD-ROM & CD-RW

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 24x speed and CD-RW at 4x speed or High speed CD-RW at 10X or Ultra speed CD-RW at 24X speed.

The specifications of the DVD- ROM & CD-RW drive are listed in Table 1-2.

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)

180

 

150

Average random access

 

 

 

 

Data buffer size (Mbytes)

 

2MB

 

 

 

 

 

DVD:

 

 

 

DVD-VIDEO, DVD-ROM, DVD-R (3.9G,4.7G), DVD-RW

 

(Ver.1.1), DVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL.

Formats supported

CD:

 

 

 

 

 

 

CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROMXA,

 

PhotoCD (muitiSession), Video CD, CD-Extra (CD+), CD-Text

 

 

Table 1- 2 DVD-ROM & CD-RW drive specifications

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