On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:39:33PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > try cdrecord -force. > > The problem now has been identified and there will be a workaround soon. Yes, this worked very well! I did a test burn, it started at ~7x and ended with ~16x, reported average write speed was 9.8x for about 4 GB of data.