Drives And Controllers; System Cmos - Sony PCV-L400 - Vaio Slimtop Computer Reference Manual

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Drives and Controllers

Diskette controller
Diskette drive
EIDE controller
*
IDE hard drive
CD-ROM drive
* Bus-mastering EIDE driver installed.
† Data on a CD-ROM disc is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 10X at the innermost track to 24X
at the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kybtes/s). The average data transfer rate
is 17X (2550 kbytes/s).

System CMOS

Make and model
ROM
Passwords
Recovery boot block
Power management
Advanced features
Plug and Play devices
Special features
* Flash-ROM update utility is available from Sony's web site at http://www.sony.com/pcsupport.
765A-compatible (supports up to 2.88 MByte)
1.44 MByte 3.5-inch MFDD
Supports PIO Mode 4 EIDE drives and Ultra DMA/
33 Mode drives
PCV-L400: 6.4 GByte
PCV-L600/PCV-L600S: 10.8 GByte
CD-ROM disc: 24X (maximum performance)
Award
*
2Mbit flash-ROM
User and supervisor passwords supported
Supported
APM 1.2
ACPI-1.0 compliant hardware for use with APM and
PNP BIOS APIs
Supported with steerable DMA channels and
interrupts
PC-98 ready, multi-boot, PCI add-in card auto-
configure
†