Re: dell's latitude cdburner problem

[Mark Lord]

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
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/