I'd say you're right. It appears that the drive writes CD's but only reads DVD's. A number of the fields, including "Identifikation," are simply the manufacturers description read from the devices ROM chip. It can say anything they want and, intentional or not, it can be misleading as to whether the drive is capable of writing DVD's or only CD's. Here is a comparison of the "Device seems to be" fields in your output and some of my drives: Yours: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Pluto: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Falcon: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Serv01: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Gaia: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Hera: Generic mmc CD-ROM. "Pluto" is an HP Pavillion xz-275 laptop that has a factory CD writer but only reads DVD'S. The next three have DVD writers. And, for comparison, "Hera" only has a CD-reader.
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