Toshiba SATELLITE A60 User Manual
1.8 DVD Dual
1 Hardware Overview
Equium A60/Satellite A60/ Pro A60/A65 Maintenance Manual
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1.8 DVD Dual
The DVD-Dual 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 16x
speed and CD-RW at 10x speed and DVD-R/+R at 4x speed and DVD-RW at 2x speed and
DVD+RW at 2.4x speed.
drive can play back a DVD at 8x speed, read CD-ROM at 24x speed, and write CD-R at 16x
speed and CD-RW at 10x speed and DVD-R/+R at 4x speed and DVD-RW at 2x speed and
DVD+RW at 2.4x speed.
The specifications of the DVD-Dual drive are listed in Table 1-6.
Table 1- 6 DVD-Dual drive specifications
Item
DVD-ROM mode
CD-ROM mode
33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2)
Data transfer rate
(Mbytes/s)
(Mbytes/s)
16.7 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2)
Access time (ms)
Average random
access
access
180
150
Average full stroke
access
access
Data buffer size
(Mbytes)
(Mbytes)
2
DVD:
DVD-ROM,DVD-R ver2.00 for General (Read/Write), DVD-RW
Ver.1.0&1.1&1.2(Read/Write),DVD+R(Read/Write),DVD+RW(Read/Write
)
Ver.1.0&1.1&1.2(Read/Write),DVD+R(Read/Write),DVD+RW(Read/Write
)
CD:
Formats supported
KODAK Photo CD Single and Multi-Session,CD-Extra(CD+),Mixed
CD,Video CD, CD-R discs (Read/Write), CD-RW , CD test data.
CD,Video CD, CD-R discs (Read/Write), CD-RW , CD test data.