Re: Unbelievable slow speeds when burning DVDs
Vasileios Gkanis <gkanis@cems.umn.edu> wrote:
> > cdrecord has a special option for this case: -immed (see man page)
> I burned some data (4.3GB) on two discs. The first disc was burned with the
> "-immed" option and the second disc was not. Unfortunately, the first disc
> was lost, some of the data can not be read. Both discs were burned at an
> average speed of ~2x and the maximum speed was ~4x. But, when I used the
> "-immed" option I burned only 100MB at ~4x, and then the speed dropped to
> ~2x. When I did not use this option I burned about 500MB at ~4x, and then
> again the speed dropped to ~2x. Interestingly, the speed increased from ~2x
> to ~4x when about 500MB were already written on the disc. But before it
> increased, the hard disk stopped transfering any data, the speed dropped to
> ~0.1x and stayed there for a couple of seconds, and then it increased to 4x.
>
> Do all these make sense? Do you think this is normal?
Without any information nobody can help you
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Jörg
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