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1 Hardware Overview

1.4 DVD-ROM Drive

1.4 DVD-ROM Drive

The DVD-ROM drive accepts 12-cm (4.72-inch) and 8-cm (3.15-inch) discs. The drive
provides high-speed data transfer, playing back a DVD at up to 8x speed and reading up to
10,820 Kbytes per second from DVD-ROM and 3,600 Kbytes per second from CD-ROM.

The DVD-ROM drive is shown in Figure 1-6 and its specifications are listed in Table 1-2.

Figure 1- 6 DVD-ROM drive

Table 1- 2 DVD-ROM drive specifications

Item DVD-ROM

Data transfer rate (Mbytes/s)

33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2)

16.7 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2)

Access time (ms)

Average random access

100ms

Data buffer size (Kbytes)

192KB

Formats supported

DVD-R/W(Read only), DVD-R (Read only),DVD-
RAM ,

CD-ROM, CD-R,CD-DA,CD-I,CD(Photo-CD,CD-
EXTRA,CD-R,CD-RW,Portiolio)
CD-R (Read only), CD-RW (Read only)

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