kakunou

17-year old student. Future surgeon, because it pays well. Only time will tell. MiniDisc user since 2003. Knew the ins and outs of computers in another time, long, long ago. Addicted to Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, single player mode. Loves mathematics, physics, and the study of Japanese/Chinese language, but not the study of literature and text, English or not. An online wanderer.

Sony's firmwares for DVD+-RW drives lack in quality. Why would their Hi-MD upgrades be any better? One example out of many: DRU-510A series of drives.

I can transfer in much less time than the OP is reporting. Use a non-vanilla custom 2.6.x and compile USB/SCSI into the kernel. And strip your Windows installation in VMWare to a bare minimum using something like nLite to butcher a new ISO for you from your source install, or do it by hand. Kill unnecessary processes and services.

OMGWTFBBQ I TYP IN ALL CAPZ PLZ HLP M3!!!!!!111111 Personal Audio Driver - Sony Europe. Which could have easily been found by using Google with very little effort.