Re: dell's latitude cdburner problem

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:57:21 +0200, Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz said:
> Hi folks
> 
> I don't know whether this is linuxes cdrecord issue, or kernel issue.
> I have dell latitude c640 laptop with their's dvd/cd-rw combo drive that 
> appears as:
> hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache

For what it's worth, my Dell Latitude C840 reports this:

 hdb: TOSHIBA CD-RW/DVD-ROM SD-R2102, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
 hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

So it's quite likely the same part.  Careful reading of the specs shows
that it's rated for 24x *reading*, but only 8X *writing*.  Are you *sure*
that it *actually* manages 24X writing under Windows? (Does burning a 72-minute
or 700M image take about 9 minutes (8X), or does it finish in about 3 minutes
(24X))?

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