Sony PCV-E314DS Reference Manual - Page 110

102 VAIO Digital Studio Reference Manual Drives and Controllers Diskette controller Diskette drive EIDE controller IDE hard drive DVD-ROM drive 765A-compatible (supports up to 2.88 MByte) 1.44 MByte 3.5-inch MFDD Supports up to four EIDE drives (supports PIO Mode 4 EIDE drives and Ultra DMA/33 Mode drives) PCV-E314DS: 10.2 GByte (bus-mastering EIDE driver installed) DVD-ROM disc: 5X (maximum performance).* CD-ROM disc: 24X (maximum performance). * DVD-ROM drive also plays CD-ROM discs. Data on the DVD-ROM is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 2X at the innermost track to 5X at the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 1385 kbytes/s). The average data transfer rate is either 3.3X (4616 kbytes/s) or 3.4X (4709 kbytes/s), depending on your specific system. Data on a CD-ROM disc is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 10X at the innermost track to 24X at the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kbytes/s). The average data transfer rate is 17X (2250 kbytes/s). System BIOS Make and model ROM Passwords Recovery boot block Power management Advanced features Plug and Play devices Special features Phoenix-based 2Mbit flash-ROM* User and supervisor passwords supported Supported APM 1.2 ACPI-1.0 compliant hardware for use with APM and PNP BIOS APIs Supported with steerable DMA channels and interrupts PC-98 ready, multi-boot, PCI add-in card autoconfigure * Flash-ROM update utility is available from Sony's web site at http://www.sony.com/pcsupport.