Drives and controllers, System bios, 4 system bios – Sony PCV-R553DS User Manual

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VAIO Digital Studio™ Reference Manual

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Drives and Controllers

System BIOS

Diskette controller

82077-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/66 Mode drives)

IDE hard drive

*

* Bus-mastering EIDE driver installed.

30.0 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 6.6X at the innermost track to 16X at

the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 1350 kbytes/s). The average data transfer rate is
11.3X (15,255 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 read: 16X (maximum performance).
CD-ROM read: 40X (maximum performance).

CD-RW drive

**

** CD-RW writing speed may vary, depending on the media. The maximum writing speed is 8X (1X = 150

kbytes/s). The maximum reading speed is 20X.

CD-RW read: 20X (maximum performance).
CD-RW write: 4X (maximum performance).
CD-R read: 32X (maximum performance).
CD-R write: 8X (maximum performance).
CD-ROM read: 32X (maximum performance).

Make and model

Award-based

ROM

4 Mbit flash-ROM

Passwords

User and supervisor passwords 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

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