cdrecord slow

[James Buchanan <jamesb.au@iinet.net.au>]

Hi,

For some reason, cdrecord is very slow.  It never burns anything faster than 
4x, even though I instruct it on the command line to burn at 32x.  Also, DVDs 
will only burn at 1x.  I've read that automounting seems to slow it down, and 
playing CDs in the drive locks it at a very slow speed for some reason.

There are also apparently two types of automounting, but now I am just 
confused.  How do I switch off automounting for the CD-ROM, both ways if 
necessary?

Anyone know of any issues with cdrecord being really slow for some reason?

I'm running Sarge on a 2.6.8-1 kernel.

Thanks,
James