Programmed Input Output mode of data transfer is the mode 01 data transfer that requires the CPU's intervention (in contrast to DMA and UDMA). Older optical drives still use this mode. There an many versions of PIO mode, with the latest being version 4, whicb offers a maximum speed of 16.7 Megabytes per second.

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