Table 1-4 Dvd-Rom Drive Specifications - Toshiba Satellite A40 Maintenance Manual

1.5 DVD-ROM Drive
1.5 DVD-ROM Drive
The DVD-ROM drive accommodates either 12 cm (4.72-inch) or 8 cm (3.15-inch) CD, CD-
R/RW and DVD. It is a high-performance drive that reads DVD at maximum 8-speed, and reads
CD at maximum 24-speed (3,600 KB per second).
The DVD-ROM drive is shown in Figure 1-6. The specifications of the DVD-ROM drive are
described in Table 1-4.
Item
Burst data transfer rate
(MB/s)
Average random access time (ms)
Average random seek time (ms)
Average random full strike access
time (ms)
Data buffer capacity (KB)
Supported
formats
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Figure 1-6 DVD-ROM drive

Table 1-4 DVD-ROM drive specifications (1/2)

DVD-ROM
16.7 (PIO Mode 4)
16.7 (Multi-word DMA Mode 2)
33.3 (Ultra DMA Mode 2)
100
95
160
DVD-ROM (DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-10, DVD-18)
DVD DVD-R (read), DVD-RW (read), DVD-RAM (read, Version
2.1), DVD-RAM (read, Version 1.0)
CD-Audio, CD+(E)G, CD-MIDI, CD-TEXT, CD-ROM, CD-
ROM XA, CD-I, CD-I Bridge (Photo-CD, Video-CD),
CD
Multisession CD (Photo-CD, CD-EXTRA, CD-R, CD-RW),
CD-R (read), CD-RW (read)
1 Hardware Overview
Specifications
Toshiba G8CC0000R810
CD-ROM
95
90
160
192
DVD-RAM
170
120
350
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