Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed October 13 2010, JD wrote: >> Yeah... well, I do not have an old drive. It is only 3 years old. >> (DVD+-R) 16X, RW-8X, CDR-24X. Output says it is MMC. >> $ wodim -checkdrive dev=/dev/sr0 >> Device type: Removable CD-ROM >> Version: 5 >> Response Format:

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:45:02 +1030 Tim wrote: > (they buy the cheapest crap they can get, or have no damn idea that some > particular brand is crappy). There is certainly a difference when it comes to double layer DVD media. I've never gotten anything but Verbatim to work consistently. Certainly

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread JD
On 10/14/2010 02:26 AM, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 12:05 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> I normlly burn with speed=4. but > Tangential question: Are you guys using media that supports such slow > speeds? And, if you are not, and if you could previously burn slower, > that might be down

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 08:30 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I never have to set the speed on burning CDs, Audio CDs? If so, that's down to a couple of things. Firstly, having an audio CD player that will handle burnt discs, most players built in the last decade seem to be fine. Secondly, audio

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu October 14 2010, Tim wrote: > When set to automatic, your software should be trying to burn as fast as > the media can handle.  It's the media that tells it what's the top > available speed.  Likewise, for burning at other speeds, the media has a > list of what it can do, and the burning sof

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 06:58 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > but it seems to me that the burning software tests might test to see > how fast it could burn.. maybe.. if you set it to auto.. When set to automatic, your software should be trying to burn as fast as the media can handle. It's the media

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu October 14 2010, Tim wrote: > The above example is from a Verbatim DVD-R disc.  According to the disc, > itself, it can *only* be written at 8x or 4x.  I don't have any other > writeable media to hand, at the moment, to test. I never thought about the DISK burning capabilities.. but it make

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 12:05 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I normlly burn with speed=4. but Tangential question: Are you guys using media that supports such slow speeds? And, if you are not, and if you could previously burn slower, that might be down to burning software overriding the data that

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-13 Thread JD
On 10/13/2010 09:52 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed October 13 2010, JD wrote: >>> ii cdrecord9:1.1.10-1 >>> Dummy transition package for wodim >> That's all fine and good. >> Problem is that wodim is not complying with >> the request to burn a

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed October 13 2010, JD wrote: > > ii  cdrecord                                                9:1.1.10-1 > > Dummy transition package for wodim > > That's all fine and good. > Problem is that wodim is not complying with > the request to burn at 2x or 4x. It is jumping to 10x. > > -- right, wha

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-13 Thread JD
On 10/13/2010 09:05 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed October 13 2010, JD wrote: >> Yeah... well, I do not have an old drive. It is only 3 years old. >> (DVD+-R) 16X, RW-8X, CDR-24X. Output says it is MMC. >> $ wodim -checkdrive dev=/dev/sr0 >> Device type: Removable CD-ROM >> Version

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed October 13 2010, JD wrote: > Yeah... well, I do not have an old drive. It is only 3 years old. > (DVD+-R) 16X, RW-8X, CDR-24X. Output says it is MMC. > $ wodim -checkdrive dev=/dev/sr0 > Device type    : Removable CD-ROM > Version        : 5 > Response Format: 2 > Capabilities   : > Vendor_i

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-13 Thread JD
On 10/13/2010 02:30 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue October 12 2010, JD wrote: >> I read on a blog that setting speed=0 in /etc/wodim.conf >> will make wodim burn at lowest possible speed. >> 10X is hard;y lowest possible speed. > try man wodim.. it says: > If you use speed=0 with a MMC compl

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue October 12 2010, JD wrote: > I read on a blog that setting speed=0 in /etc/wodim.conf > will make wodim burn at lowest possible speed. > 10X is hard;y lowest possible speed. try man wodim.. it says: If you use speed=0 with a MMC compliant drive, wodim will switch to the lowes

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-12 Thread JD
On 10/12/2010 06:39 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:25:44 -0700 > JD wrote: > >>For some reason, wodim is no longer honoring lower >> speed settings, like 2 or 4. > I had lots of problems with wrong speeds when k3b decided > to start using wodim as the default burning app. For

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:25:44 -0700 JD wrote: > For some reason, wodim is no longer honoring lower > speed settings, like 2 or 4. I had lots of problems with wrong speeds when k3b decided to start using wodim as the default burning app. Fortunately you can change it to use growisofs (which seems

wodim and speed setting

2010-10-12 Thread JD
For some reason, wodim is no longer honoring lower speed settings, like 2 or 4. It is always defaulting to 10+X. I read on a blog that setting speed=0 in /etc/wodim.conf will make wodim burn at lowest possible speed. 10X is hard;y lowest possible speed. $ cat /etc/wodim.conf CDR_DEVICE=/dev/sr0