Sony DVD-RW/CD-RW drive problems

grodenhi_at_gmail.com
Date: 08/24/05 

Date: 23 Aug 2005 15:11:12 -0700

I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop with a Sony DVD/CD -RW drive. This
drive works fine reading CD/DVD disks. It however never recognizes a
blank CD-R (I would like to burn a CD of pictures). When I insert a
blank CD-R, the drive scans it for several second then simply gives up
with no error (xcdroast claims there's no CD in the drive). There are
also no entries in any syslogs. Any suggestions? I'd really like to
backup some data.

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