Thanks for the firmware link Slats

I just done my first CDR burn and I'm amazed at the speed this Ricoh 7200A drive burns a CDR. It just burned a 500mb CDR in about three and a half minutes. My old Hewlett Packard Writer takes up to 60 minutes to burn a CDR with this amount of data. Now i don't know what to do with all that spear time i have ROFL

Thanks again everyone for all your help it's very much appreciated.