Toshiba Satellite Pro A60 Series, Maintenance Manual

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1 Hardware Overview 1.7 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive
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 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-ROM mode DVD-RAM
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
100 90 170
Average full stroke
access
170 160 300
Rotational speed
(RPM)
4,670 Max 5100 Max 3300 Max
Data buffer size
(Mbytes)
2
DVD:
DVD-ROM(DVD-5,DVD-9,DVD-10,DVD-18),DVD-R
Ver.1.0,Ver.2.0,DVD RW(Read Ver.1.1),DVD-RAM(Read Ver.2.1)
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
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