Toshiba Portege A600 - Manual (Page 106)

User’s Manual 4-19
Operating Basics
■ If the disc is poor in quality, or is dirty or damaged, writing or rewriting
errors may be noted - ensure that you check all discs for dirt or damage
before you use them.
■ The actual number of rewrites to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW or DVD-
RAM media will be affected by the quality of the disc itself and the way
in which it is used.
■ There are two types of DVD-R media available, authoring discs and
general use discs. Do not attempt to use authoring discs as only
general use discs can be written to by a computer drive.
■ You can use both DVD-RAM discs that can be removed from a cartridge
and DVD-RAM discs designed without a cartridge.
■ You may find that other computer DVD-ROM drives or other DVD
players may not be able to read DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW
discs.
■ Data written to a CD-R, DVD-R or DVD+R discs cannot be deleted
either in whole or in part.
DVD-R:
DVD Specifications for Recordable Disc for General Version 2.0
TAIYO YUDEN Co.,Ltd. (for 4x, 8x and 16x speed media)
Panasonic Co.,Ltd. (for 4x, 8x and 16x speed media)
DVD+R:
MITSUBISHI KAGAKU MEDIA CO., LTD. (for 8x and 16x speed
media)
Ricoh Co., Ltd. (for 8x and 16x speed media)
DVD-RW:
DVD Specifications for Recordable Disc for Version 1.1 or
Version 1.2
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) (for 2x, 4x and 6x speed media)
MITSUBISHI KAGAKU MEDIA CO., LTD. (for 2x, 4x and 6x speed
media)
DVD+RW:
Ricoh Co., Ltd. (for 2.4x and 4x speed media)
MITSUBISHI KAGAKU MEDIA CO., LTD. (for 2.4x and 4x speed
media)
DVD-RAM: (DVD Super Multi drive only)
DVD Specifications for DVD-RAM Disc for Version 2.0, Version 2.1
or Version 2.2
Panasonic Co.,Ltd. (for 3x and 5x speed media)
Hitachi Maxell,Ltd. (for 3x and 5x speed media)
■ This drive cannot use discs that allow writing faster than 16x speed
(DVD-R and DVD+R media), 8x speed (DVD+RW media), 6x speed
(DVD-RW media), 5x speed (DVD-RAM media).
■ 2.6GB and 5.2GB DVD-RAM media cannot be read from or written to.