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