Cd-Rw/Dvd-Rom Drive; Figure 1-6 Cd-Rw/Dvd-Rom Drive; Table 1-2 Cd-Rw/Dvd-Rom Drive Specifications - Toshiba Satellite M205 Maintenance Manual

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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, HS CD-RW at 10x speed, US CD-RW at 24x speed and CD-RW at
4x speed.
The CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive is shown in Figure 1-6 and its specifications are listed in
Table 1-2.

Table 1-2 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive Specifications

Item
Data Transfer Rate
(Mbytes/s)
Access Time (ms)
Average Random
Access
Data Buffer Size
(Mbytes)
Formats Supported
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Figure 1-6 CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive

DVD-ROM mode
33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2)
16.7 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2)
150 ms
2MB
DVD:
DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RAM.
CD:
CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive
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CD-RW mode
130 ms
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