In message <20050821224204.GB21@vigor10.my.domain>, Mark Weinem writes:
>On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
>
>> Yeah, the firmware [...] claims to support
>> 16x DVD-R and the media 8x (according to dvd+rw-mediainfo).
>
>But that only works for media really tested with the drive (and
>supported from the firmware). If the firmware supports your 8x media you
>will get 8x burning speed (possibly even higher speed!). With no media
>support you will get 4x or maybe only 2x burning speed.
>
>DVD-Burning is about firmware, media quality and media
>compatibility! 

I'm confused -- is the media speed readable by the drive?  My son is 
having problems (on a Windows machine) with some disks that *should* be 
compatible, but Windows refuses to touch them.  

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb