Sony PCV-E518DS - Manual (Page 110)

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Drives and Controllers
System BIOS
Diskette controller 765A-compatible (supports up to 2.88 MByte)
Diskette drive 1.44 MByte 3.5-inch MFDD
EIDE controller Supports up to four EIDE drives (supports PIO Mode
4 EIDE drives and Ultra DMA/33 Mode drives)
IDE hard drive PCV-E518DS: 17.28 GByte (bus-mastering EIDE
driver installed)
CD-R/RW drive CD-R disc read: 24X (maximum performance).
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CD-R disc write: 4X (maximum performance). *
CD-RW disc read: 8X (maximum performance). †
CD-RW disc write: 2X (maximum performance). †
CD-ROM disc : 24X (maximum performance).
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* Data on a CD-R disc is written at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 1X at the innermost track to 4X at
the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kbytes/s). The average data transfer rate is
either 3.3X (4616 kbytes/s) or 3.4X (4709 kbytes/s), depending on your specific system. Data on a CD-R
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 kbytes/s). The average data transfer rate is either 3.3X
(4616 kbytes/s) or 3.4X (4709 kbytes/s), depending on your specific system.
† Data on a CD-RW disc is written at a fixed transfer rate of 2X (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 100
kbytes/s), and is read at a fixed transfer rate of 8X (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kbytes/s).
‡ 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).
Make and model Phoenix-based
ROM 2Mbit flash-ROM
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* Flash-ROM update utility is available from Sony’s web site at http://www.sony.com/pcsupport.
Passwords User and supervisor passwords supported
Recovery boot block Supported
Power management APM 1.2
Advanced features ACPI-1.0 compliant hardware for use with APM and
PNP BIOS APIs
Plug and Play devices Supported with steerable DMA channels and
interrupts
Special features PC-98 ready, multi-boot, PCI add-in card auto-
configure