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1.8 DVD-Multi Drive 1 Hardware Overview
1.6 DVD Multi
The DVD-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
16x speed and CD-RW at 4x speed.
The specifications of the DVD-Multi drive are listed in Table 1-4.
Table 1- 4 DVD-Multi drive specifications
Item DVD-ROM mode CD-ROM 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
180 150
Average full stroke
access
170 160
Rotational speed
(RPM)
4,670 Max 5100 Max
Data buffer size
(Mbytes)
2
DVD:
DVD-VIDEO,DVD-ROM,DVD,R(3.9G,4.7G),DVDRW(Ver.1.1),DVD-
RAM,DVD+R,DVD+RW
CD:
Formats supported
CD-DA,CD-ROM, CD-R,CD-RW,CD-
ROMXA,PhotoCD(muitiSession),Video CD,CD-Extra(CD+),CD-Text
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