PROBLEM WITH BURNING ON CD-RW

I will be grateful if you can help with my SAMSUNG COMBO
SM-304B CD-ROM Drive. (Operating platform XP Pro)

I can play DVD, open files on CDR, burn to CDR. If I
insert a CD-RW however, it takes ages to open and if I
try to burn, it comes up with error messages like write
protected, bad lock or could not perform fixation.

Thanks, and I look forward to your feedback.

Regards
Abdul-Habib

>-----Original Message-----
>I will be grateful if you can help with my SAMSUNG COMBO
>SM-304B CD-ROM Drive. (Operating platform XP Pro)
>
>I can play DVD, open files on CDR, burn to CDR. If I
>insert a CD-RW however, it takes ages to open and if I
>try to burn, it comes up with error messages like write
>protected, bad lock or could not perform fixation.
>
>Thanks, and I look forward to your feedback.
>
>Regards
>Abdul-Habib
>
>.
If you're trying to burn on a CD-ROM drive you'd better
get comfortable--it's going to be a long wait.

Evidently, this is a common problem with that drive. Try updating its
firmware before you give up. Here is a newsgroup thread from Dell's support
forum discussing the same problem.
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportfo....id=4978&page=1

one possible firmware download site is
http://www.pbnec.nl/support/itemnr/REFFIUP04490300.html

- Robert -

"Abdul-Habib Durojaiye" <abdul_durojaiye@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:299e01c3e109$30084730$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I will be grateful if you can help with my SAMSUNG COMBO
> SM-304B CD-ROM Drive. (Operating platform XP Pro)
>
> I can play DVD, open files on CDR, burn to CDR. If I
> insert a CD-RW however, it takes ages to open and if I
> try to burn, it comes up with error messages like write
> protected, bad lock or could not perform fixation.
>
> Thanks, and I look forward to your feedback.
>
> Regards
> Abdul-Habib
>