Chadley Wilson wrote: > I have a bit of a strange one here, > Where in the configs do I set my CD writers capability. > I have a new 52X but some thing is limiting it to 8X. > Where do you set or configure the driver? You've been given some good advice. Don't forget you need 52x blanks. It's also possible that you don't have DMA enabled: what does hdparm /dev/cdrw return? (That assumes that you've got /dev/cdrw linked to the new CD-R/W, of course...) James. -- E-mail address: james | Power corrupts, PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. @westexe.demon.co.uk | -- Vint Cerf