First, it would help to be a bit more descriptive than just to say "has trouble reading large files". What sorts of files? What sort of trouble? What application software is involved?
Without that detail, here is just a guess ... under Linux, DMA is not enabled on the drive (I'm assuming here that this is an ATAPI drive, another detail you omitted). You can check this (and if need be correct it) with "hdparm" ... the man page will give you the details.
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On 18 Oct 2002, Bryan Simmons wrote: > I've noticed that my HP CD-Writer 9100+ has trouble reading large files > off of a burn under Mandrake 9.0. This problem doesn't occur in > Windows. I think it may be the read-ahead setting. Does anyone know > anything about this?
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