DVD Burner permission question

[Fred Erickson]

On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 19:39 -0500, John Pierce wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have two hp pavilion laptops, both are the same machines purchased
> the same day.  I had opensuse 10.2 on both and then switched to fedora
> 7.  Now the machine that my wife uses will not burn a dvd, it will
> burn cd and cdrw discs but not a dvd.  I figured that the drive went
> bad and I called hp tech support, they told me it was a configuration
> issue not hardware since it will burn cd and not dvd.
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> Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> John

If all else fails and if the DVD drives in the laptops are easily
removable, you could try swapping the drives.

Fred