Toshiba TECRA A4 - CD-RW;DVD-ROM Drive; Table 1- 3 CD-RW;DVD-ROM Drive Specifications

1.5 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive 1 Hardware Overview
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1.5 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive
The CD-RW/DVD-ROM 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 HS CD-RW at 10x speed.
The specifications of the CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive are listed in Table 1-3.
Table 1- 3 CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive specifications
Item DVD-ROM mode CD-RW mode
33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2) Data transfer rate
(Mbytes/s)
16.7 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2)
Access time (ms)
Average random
access
150 ms 130 ms
Data buffer size
(Mbytes)
2MB
DVD:
DVD-ROM(DVD-5,DVD-9,DVD-10,DVD-18),DVD-R
(Ver.1.0,Ver.2.0),DVD-RAM
CD:
Formats supported
CD-DA,CD+(E)G,CD-MIDI,CD-TEXT,CD-ROM,CD-ROM XA,MIXED
MODE CD,CD-I,CD-I Bridge(Photo CD,Video CD),Muitisession
CD(Photo CD,CD-EXTRA,Portfolio,CD-R,CD-RW),CD-R,CD-RW