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Drives and Controllers
System BIOS
Drive Description
Floppy Disk drive 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB.
CD-RW/DVD combo drive *
* The CD-RW/CD-R/CD-ROM data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 Kilobytes per second (KBps). The DVD-
ROM data transfer standard 1X rate is 1350 KBps.
CD-RW read
†
CD-RW write ‡
CD-R read **
CD-R write ††
CD-ROM read
‡‡
DVD-ROM read
***
† Data on a CD-RW is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 6.9X at the innermost track to 16X at
the outermost track. The average data transfer rate is 11.4X (1710 KBps).
‡ Data on a CD-RW is written at a constant rate of 2X and 4X.
** Data on a CD-R is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 10.3X at the innermost track to 24X at the
outermost track. The average data transfer rate is 17.1X (2565 KBps).
†† Data on a CD-R is written at a constant transfer rate of 1X, 2X, 4X.
‡‡ Data on a CD-ROM is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 10.3X at the innermost track to 24X
at the outermost track. The average data transfer rate is 17.1X (2565 KBps).
***Data on a DVD-ROM is read at a variable transfer rate ranging from 2X at the innermost track to 4.8X at
the outermost track. The average data transfer rate is 3.4X (4590 KBps).
16X maximum performance
4X maximum performance
24X maximum performance
4X maximum performance
24X maximum performance
4.8X maximum performance
Make and model Award-based
ROM 2Mbit CMOS Flash memory
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-99 compliant, multi-boot, PCI add-in card
auto-configure