Patent ID: 7423943

Claim:
An information handling system comprising: information processing components operable to generate information for storage; an optical drive interfaced with the processing components and operable to accept the information for storage and to write the information to an optical medium according to a write strategy having a write speed; a write strategy table stored on the optical drive and having plural optical medium identification codes, each optical medium identification code having an associated write strategy; a general write strategy table stored on the optical drive and having plural preassigned optical medium identification codes, each preassigned optical medium identification code associated with one of plural general write strategies, each preassigned optical medium identification code associated with an optical medium planned for development by an optical medium manufacturer; a write strategy module operable to read an optical medium identification code from an optical medium and to provide the optical drive with the associated write strategy, the write strategy module further operable to read a preassigned optical medium identification code and to provide the optical drive with the associated general write strategy.