Toshiba SATELLITE A200 - Manual (Page 23)

1.4 Optical Disc Device 1 Hardware Overview
Minnesota 10M/10MG Series Maintenance Manual 1-9
1.4.2 DVD Super Multi Double Layer
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 24x speed and CD-RW at 10x and DVD-R at 8x speed and DVD-RW at 4x speed
and DVD+R at 8x speed and DVD+RW at 4x speed and DVD-RAM at 5x speed and DVD+R
DL at 2.4x speed and DVD-R DL at 2x speed.
The specifications of the DVD Super Multi Double Layer drive are listed in Table 1-3.
Item DVD-ROM mode CD-ROM mode
Data transfer rate
(Mbytes/s)
33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2)
16.6 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2)
Access time (ms)
Average random access
130 130
Data buffer size (Mbytes) 2MB
Formats supported
DVD:
DVD-VIDEO, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R,
DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL
CD:
CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROMXA,
PhotoCD (single/multi-session), CD-EXTRA, CD-Text
Table 1-3 DVD Super Multi Double Layer drive specifications