Toshiba Satellite A210 Series - Optical Disc Device; DVD Super Multi Double Layer Drive Specifications

1 Hardware Overview 1.4 Optical Disc Device
Satellite A210/ A215, Satellite Pro A210, EQUIUM A210, SATEGO A210 Series Maintenance Manual
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1.4 Optical Disc Device
1.4.1 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 4x speed, US CD-RW at 24x speed, High Speed CD-RW
at 10x speed, DVD-R at 8x speed, DVD-RW at 6x speed, DVD+R at 8x speed, DVD+R
(Double Layer) at 4x speed, DVD-R (Double Layer) at 4x speed, DVD+RW at 8x speed and
DVD-RAM at 5x 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)
Average random access
130 130
Data buffer size (Mbytes) 2MB
Formats supported
DVD:
DVD-VIDEO, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R,
DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL
CD:
CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROMXA,
PhotoCD (single/multi-session), CD-EXTRA, CD-Text
Table 1-2 DVD Super Multi Double Layer drive specifications