Comment 19 for bug 66254

Please don't be so hasty to write this one off and advise users to upgrade: the drive I'm having problems with is in a relative's 6/7 year old Dell, so probably not an uncommon piece of kit (and certainly not that old). How come cdrecord functions fine with the drive if there is some fundamental firmware issue with size reporting? Please forgive my ignorance here :)

Any idea how I can find out if a SAMSUNG_CDRW/DVD_SM_308B == CDWriter IDE 8432? I can't get physical access to the drive right now since it's about 100 miles away!