On Wednesday 13 July 2005 11:27 am, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Vasileios Gkanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, this is a laptop and I can not change the IDE cables. > > The good thing is that I burned a DVD with Cdrecord-ProDVD and the > > maximum speed was 2.3x and the average speed was 2x. Now, I do not want > > to be greedy here, but since the driver can burn up to 8x and the disc > > supports 16x, why the speed remained at 2x. > > I have a similar problem in Windows (Nero), where the speed is about ~4x, > > and I am talking with the manufacturer about it. > > cdrecord has a special option for this case: -immed (see man page) I burned some data (4.3GB) on two discs. The first disc was burned with the "-immed" option and the second disc was not. Unfortunately, the first disc was lost, some of the data can not be read. Both discs were burned at an average speed of ~2x and the maximum speed was ~4x. But, when I used the "-immed" option I burned only 100MB at ~4x, and then the speed dropped to ~2x. When I did not use this option I burned about 500MB at ~4x, and then again the speed dropped to ~2x. Interestingly, the speed increased from ~2x to ~4x when about 500MB were already written on the disc. But before it increased, the hard disk stopped transfering any data, the speed dropped to ~0.1x and stayed there for a couple of seconds, and then it increased to 4x.
Do all these make sense? Do you think this is normal? Vasilis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
