Toshiba SATELLITE A60 Service Manual

The DVD-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 
16x speed and CD-RW at 4x speed. 

The specifications of the DVD-Multi drive are listed in Table 1-4. 

 

33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2) 

Data transfer rate 
(Mbytes/s)  

16.7 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2) 

Access time (ms) 

   

   

Average random 
access 

180 150 

Average full stroke 
access 

170 160 

Rotational speed 
(RPM) 

4,670 Max 

5100 Max 

Data buffer size 
(Mbytes) 

2 

DVD: 

DVD-VIDEO,DVD-ROM,DVD,R(3.9G,4.7G),DVDRW(Ver.1.1),DVD-
RAM,DVD+R,DVD+RW 

CD: 

Formats supported 

CD-DA,CD-ROM, CD-R,CD-RW,CD-
ROMXA,PhotoCD(muitiSession),Video CD,CD-Extra(CD+),CD-Text