-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-10-29 at 15:46 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
But the setting is there, I don't understand how you don't see it. About the middle of the burn dialog, right hand side.
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I do see it - it is very prominent. When I pull down the list, what appears is:
Auto Ignore
nothing more, which doesn't add much. Now that you have insisted it really does know how to adjust write speed, I tried clicking in the small, curious, _unidentified_ icon just the the right of the list box. Although I still don't know what that icon is meant to represent, when I again pull down the list, it comes complete with a whole range of available speeds. It would have been a nice touch to put an identifying word next to the funny icon. The miniscule graphic in the icon still tells me nothing. But now that I know about the magic icon, I will try writing the DVD at a more sedate speed. Thank you for your assurance that speed options are really there.
X-) Yes, I see that icon here. It is not labeled, but it has a drawing of two arrows in a circle, and when hovering the mouse over it a help tip pops saying "determine supported writing speeds". What it gets depends on the media that is on the drive at the time, and on the drive itself. (Maybe there is a kde theme that makes "clickables" prominent)
Now an additional question arises: The highest speed in the list is 16. Does K3b interrogated the drive to ascertain that the drive is capable of writing to that speed? Or is 16 the highest speed of which K3b is capable without regard for the drive's capability?
No, it interrogates both the drive and the media. If I recall correctly, DVD-R media characteristics have to be hard coded in the drive xROM, whereas DVD+R can inform the drive on how to program itself. That's why we need firmware upgrades, I suppose. I should have some links.... [...] here: http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/10/30/how-to-choose-cddvd-archival-me... http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm And yes, I often find that burning at a slower speed is more reliable, and more so as the drive ages. The lenses are made from plastics instead of glass, so the do deform with the heat from the laser, I was told. So the drives do not last long, but they are relatively cheap nowdays. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHJip8tTMYHG2NR9URAgLSAJ96uEvk78NwwGAgU0h8irT81h6sewCdF9dA QmE0dECiUOZ5cQBBv+yi82k= =Q1Wh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org