Toshiba A500D/PRO A500DPRO A500D Manual Do Utilizador

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, CD-RW at 6x speed, CD-RW at 16x speed, DVD-R at 8x speed, DVD-RW at 8x speed, 
DVD+R at 8x speed, DVD+R (Double Layer) at 8x speed, DVD-R (Dual Layer) at 8x speed, 
DVD+RW at 8x speed and DVD-RAM at 5x speed. 

The DVD Super Multi drive is shown in Figure 1-3 and its specifications are listed in Table 1-2. 

 

33.3 (U-DMA transfer mode 2) 

Data Transfer Rate (Mbytes/s)  

16.6 (PIO mode 4, Multiword DMA mode 2) 

Access Time (ms) 

   

   

Average Random Access 

130 

130 

Data Buffer Size (Mbytes) 

2MB 

DVD: 

DVD-VIDEO, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R, 
DVD+-R (Double Layer), DVD+RW. 

CD: 

Formats Supported 

CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROMXA, Photo CD  
(Multi-Session), Video CD, CD-Extra (CD+), CD-Text.