Sony PCV-L400 Reference Manual - Page 102

Drives and Controllers, System CMOS, Supports PIO Mode 4 EIDE drives and Ultra DMA - vaio drivers

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94 VAIO Computer Reference Manual Drives and Controllers Diskette controller Diskette drive EIDE controller IDE hard drive* CD-ROM drive 765A-compatible (supports up to 2.88 MByte) 1.44 MByte 3.5-inch MFDD Supports PIO Mode 4 EIDE drives and Ultra DMA/ 33 Mode drives PCV-L400: 6.4 GByte PCV-L600/PCV-L600S: 10.8 GByte CD-ROM disc: 24X (maximum performance)† * Bus-mastering EIDE driver installed. † 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 kybtes/s). The average data transfer rate is 17X (2550 kbytes/s). System CMOS Make and model ROM Passwords Recovery boot block Power management Advanced features Plug and Play devices Special features Award 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.

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VAIO Computer Reference Manual
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Drives and Controllers
System CMOS
Diskette controller
765A-compatible (supports up to 2.88 MByte)
Diskette drive
1.44 MByte 3.5-inch MFDD
EIDE controller
Supports PIO Mode 4 EIDE drives and Ultra DMA/
33 Mode drives
IDE hard drive
*
*
Bus-mastering EIDE driver installed.
PCV-L400: 6.4 GByte
PCV-L600/PCV-L600S: 10.8 GByte
CD-ROM drive
CD-ROM disc: 24X (maximum performance)
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 kybtes/s). The average data transfer rate
is 17X (2550 kbytes/s).
Make and model
Award
ROM
2Mbit flash-ROM
*
*
Flash-ROM update utility is available from Sony’s web site at http://www.sony.com/pcsupport.
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