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1.9 DVD Super Multi
The DVD Super 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 and High speed CD-RW at 8x speed and DVD-R at 4x speed
and DVD-RW at 2x speed and DVD+R at 2.4x speed and DVD+RW at 2.4x speed and DVD-
RAM at 2x speed.
The specifications of the DVD Super Multi drive are listed in Table 1-7.
Table 1- 7 DVD Super Multi drive specifications
Item DVD-ROM mode CD-ROM mode
33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2) Data transfer rate
(Mbytes/s)
16.6 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2)
Access time (ms)
Average random
access
180 150
Data buffer size
(Mbytes)
2
DVD:
DVD-VIDEO,DVD-ROM,DVD-R(3.9G,4.7G),DVD-RW(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