Sony PCV-J150 - Manual (Page 100)

VAIO® Reference Manual 88
Drives and Controllers
System BIOS
Drive Description
Diskette drive 3.5-inch, 1.44 Mbyte.
CD-RW drive
*
* The CD-RW/CD-R/CD-ROM data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kbytes/s.
CD-RW read
†
CD-RW write
‡
CD-R read
**
CD-R write
††
CD-ROM read
‡‡
† Data on a CD-RW is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 8X at the innermost track to 20X
at the outermost track. The average data transfer rate is 14X (2100 kbytes/s).
‡ Data on a CD-RW is written at a constant transfer rate of 1X, 2X, or 4X, depending on the speed
you select.
** Data on the CD-R is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 13X at the innermost track to 32X
at the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kbytes/s). The average data transfer
rate is 22.5X (3375 kbytes/s).
†† Data on a CD-R is written at a constant transfer rate of 1X, 2X, 4X, or 8X, depending on the speed
you select.
‡‡ Data on the CD-ROM is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 13X at the innermost track to
32X at the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kbytes/s). The average data
transfer rate is 22.5X (3375 kbytes/s).
20X maximum performance
4X maximum performance
32X maximum performance
8X maximum performance
32X 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