Drives and controllers, System bios, Drives and controllers system bios – Sony PCV-R532DS User Manual

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VAIO Digital Studio Reference Manual

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Drives and Controllers

System BIOS

Diskette controller

765A-compatible (supports up to 2.88 MByte)

Diskette drive

1.44 MByte 3.5-inch MFDD

EIDE controller

Supports up to four EIDE drives (supports PIO Mode 4
EIDE drives and Ultra DMA/33 Mode drives)

*

* Controller is ready to support ATA-66 drives by utilizing ATA-66-compliant interface cables and hard drives.

IDE hard drive

† Bus-mastering EIDE driver installed.

10.2 GByte

‡ GB means one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary.

DVD-ROM drive

**

** Data on a DVD-ROM is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 3.3X at the innermost track to 8X at

the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 1385 kbytes/s). The average data transfer rate is
5.6X (7634 kbytes/s). Data on a CD-ROM is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 17.2X at the
innermost track to 40X at the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kbytes/s). The
average data transfer rate is 28.6X (4293 kbytes/s)

DVD-ROM: 8X (maximum performance).
CD-ROM: 40X (maximum performance).

Make and model

Award-based

ROM

4 Mbit flash-ROM

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-98 ready, multi-boot, PCI add-in card auto-
configure

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