No support for DVD+R on my MBP

My MBP is unnable to burn DVD+R discs. In the System Profiler, it only lists DVD-R and DVD-RW as writable formats.
But when I look on the Apple.com MBP specpage (http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html), it says it should be able to burn DVD+R.
What's up with that?

Restart your computer with the Option, Command, P,
and R keys held down, and release the keys when you
hear the second startup chime. Doing this sometimes
fixes a problem in which the System Profiler forgets
that your drive is capable of writing to DVD+R and
DVD+RW disks.
I had the same trouble, this seemed to change the information in Profiler but do nothing to help the functional problem. However, the problem seemed to start with Disk Utility, which sees the DVD+R as locked, no matter what, and seems to just give up on it. It won't mount, or format, or anything. However, I found I was able to burn to the disc (Sony) in iPhoto, and then also in the Finder, so long as I didn't open DU, which seemed to make the disc invisible to the Finder. It's not quite all right, but it's at least a workaround.
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I read somewhere that the 6Gbs Marvell 9128 ports do not support trim on an SSD.
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