From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932392AbVISNrV (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:47:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932397AbVISNrV (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:47:21 -0400 Received: from thorn.pobox.com ([208.210.124.75]:45978 "EHLO thorn.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932392AbVISNrU (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:47:20 -0400 Message-ID: <432EC15F.3050203@rtr.ca> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:47:11 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dell's latitude cdburner problem References: <200509182257.23363@gj-laptop> In-Reply-To: <200509182257.23363@gj-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote: > > I have dell latitude c640 laptop with their's dvd/cd-rw combo drive that .. > Trouble is, that this drive suppose to write CDs at 24x, and does so under > windows. But under Linux it works only 8x. Anyone with the same problem If it's the NEC burner that Dell currently ships, then those drives are very fussy about CD-R blank media. Name-brand Maxell and others burn at full speed, but most of the no-name discs I have here are locked to 16X or slower. -ml