I noticed that none seemed to be willing to touch this with a 10-feet pole. So I just have to ask one thing WHY? Why record at 1X except for it to take as fscking long as possible, or is there some hardware choke point that you encounter at higher speeds. For the record yes mine does it too, set the speed to 1 and it records at 4X none the less. But all my CD-RW medias are marked highspeed 4X-10X and "This product is a rewritable disc for exlusive use with High Speed CD-RW drives bearing the logo shown above." That in practice means that my friend owning an older CD-RW drive only capable of max 4X cannot write the discs. (we tried) He bitched about it to no end but in todays world where a 52x24x52x drive costs 35€ who cares. On Tuesday 30 September 2003 16:46, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
Good day,
cdrecord version 2.0, under SuSE Linux 8.2 Pro. I want to burn a CD-RW with 1X.
No matter what speed I set, cdrecord ignores it and burns with approximately 4X (which is the media's burning ability according to its ATIP). Before the burn starts, cdrecord always says that it will burn at 2X, but the actual burning is always done with 4X I have tried to set the speed to 0, 1 and 2 to no avail.
The environment variable CDR_SPEED is empty, and there is no settings file for cdrecord on the system. So there should not be any settings overruling my command ilne.
It makes no difference if I burn as root or as a normal user.
Under SuSE 8.1 cdrecord always honored my speed requests, with this very drive and with the same media.
I have not found any usable solutions on the great internet.
Has anyone got any ideas as to what might be wrong?
Best regards :o)
Johnny :o)