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1.5 DVD-ROM Drive 1 Hardware Overview
1.4 DVD-ROM Drive
The DVD-ROM drive accepts 12-cm (4.72-inch) and 8-cm (3.15-inch) discs. The drive
provides high-speed data transfer, playing back a DVD at up to 8x speed and reading up to
10,820 Kbytes per second from DVD-ROM and 3,600 Kbytes per second from CD-ROM.
The DVD-ROM drive is shown in Figure 1-5 and its specifications are listed in Table 1-2.
Figure 1- 6 DVD-ROM drive
Table 1- 2 DVD-ROM drive specifications
Item SD-C2612-10E
Data transfer rate (Mbytes/s) 33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2)
Access time (ms)
Average random access (ms)
Average full stroke access (ms)
100ms
Rotational speed (RPM) 5100 Max
Data buffer size (Kbytes) 192
Formats supported DVD-R/W, DVD-R (Read),DVD-RAM
CD-ROM, CD-R,
CD-R (Write), CD-RW (Write)
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