Blu Ray drive/burner can't write dual layer DVD - W500 Vista 64

I recently did a clean Vista 64 Business install on a new hard drive. I pretty much have everything up and going, except the Blu Ray drive doesn't recognize that it can write dual layer DVDs. I ran Nero InfoTool and it, too, tells me that the drive cannot write dual layer DVDs. (Pretty much everything in InfoTool is checked, read and write, except all the HD-DVDs and the dual layer DVD write functions.) Does anyone have any ideas? My understanding is that the drive can write dual layer DVDs.

I'll answer this with the same information that I posted at TPF:
From: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-70234
Reads or writes data with speedy maximum data transfer rates of:
* 16x maximum (writing to CD-R media)
* 10x maximum (writing to CD-RW media)
* 5x maximum (writing to DVD-RAM media)
* 8x maximum (writing to DVD+/-R media)
* 4x maximum (writing to DVD+/-RW media)
* 2x maximum (writing to BD-R/RE SL media)
* 1x maximum (writing to BD-R/RE DL media)
* 24x maximum (reading CD-ROM, CD-R media)
* 24x maximum (reading CD-RW media)
* 8x maximum (reading DVD-ROM/-R/+R SL media)
* 6x maximum (reading DVD-ROM/-R/+R DL media)
* 6x maximum (reading DVD-RW/+RW media)
* 5x maximum (reading DVD-RAM media)
* 2x maximum (reading BD-ROM media)
* 2x maximum (reading BD-R/RE SL/DL media)
It appears that DL (dual layer) writing in DVD-R and DVD+R formats is not supported.

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