How to get burner speed info
Is there some way to get the speed capabilities of a drive? I've tried
options like -atip, -prcap, and -checkdrive, and there doesn't seem to
be a list of supported speeds available for human use. Since various
media will result in a burn at some small number of speeds ignoring the
speed=NN option, I know cdrecord can identify a supported speed, but
short of trying burns with progressively crappier media, I don't see how
to get that information out to the human. Of course it may just be
returned when cdrecord tries to set the speed, setting speed=24 on one
drive results in "starting to burn" speeds of 24, 20, or 16x. That's the
speed reporting at OPC time, the actual speed is similar, but that's not
what I'm referencing.
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E. Robert Bogusta
It seemed like a good idea at the time
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