1.6 DVD Multi 1 Hardware Overview
Equium A60/Satellite A60/ Pro A60/A65 Maintenance Manual 1-17
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 DVD-RAM 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
Data buffer size
(Mbytes)
2
DVD:
DVD-VIDEO,DVD-ROM,DVD-R(3.9G,4.7G),DVD-RW(Ver.1.1),DVD-RAM
CD:
Formats supported
CD-DA,CD-ROM, CD-R,CD-RW,CD-
ROMXA,PhotoCD(muitiSession),Video CD,CD-Extra(CD+),CD-Text