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

Are you using DMA? Check with

hdparm -d /dev/whatever

.... and enable it with...

hdparm -d 1 /dev/whatever

(replace whatever with your device, like /dev/hda or so)

If you can't enable it, you might have to compile a kernel with the right
IDE drivers.

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Lasse Jensen [fafler at g mail dot com]
Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.
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