Re: growisofs failed to change write speed
Andy Polyakov wrote:
>> i'm trying to burn a dvd iso (or copy a dvd on the fly) with growisofs
>> and it bombs out saying it failed to change the write speed from 4x to
>> 8x.
>>
>> "dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/cdrom1" reports 8x writing speed, but "cdrecord
>> -prcap /dev/cdrom1" reports a max write speed of 4x.
>>
>> i have an nec 2500a and i'm using 8x media.
>>
>> any suggestions? thanks for the help.
>>
>> p.s. as for versions, i'm using what came standard with fedora core 2
>> (actually, they might be updated).
>
> Please, check the version explicitly with 'growisofs -version'. I [for
> one] don't keep track on which version is shipped with any particular
> distro or when updated. If it's less than 5.19 (as mentioned at
> http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/hcn.hml), then update. If not,
> submit the actual dvd+rw-mediainfo output for the media in question. A.
ahh, thank you...i upgraded but haven't had a chance to try it out yet. as
a temporary solution, i've been using k3b's "ignore speed" option. it
seems to work well, but my max write speed seems to top out around 6x.
Reply to: