Re: Can't get near specified burning speed.

Michael Badt wrote:

Hi,
My NEC 3500A DVD burner (specified at X16 DVD burn and X48 CD burn speed)
won't burn CDs (52X media from several manufacturers) at larger than X16
speed. Why?

A number of reasons, the first is the top burn speed is only achieved at the
outer most portion of the media (the last 100-MB or so). All will burn at
slower speeds and step up the speed the further out from the center, it a
matter of physics. The maximum speed is for CD-R media, CD-RW media will
burn at 24X maximum.

Other factors include the IDE interface (bus speed and load), the IDE cable
(80-wire/40-wire) and the soft (software buffer) and hard (the hardware
buffer) buffer sizes.

The PC is NOT overloaded. It seems that K3b "uses" DVD setting also for
CDs.

So, change the configuration.

K3b Menubar--> Settings--> Configure K3b... --> Devices

Click on the Max Write Speed number and set to 48 (if needed).
Click on the Apply button, click on the OK button.


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