On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 21:22 +1000, James Buchanan wrote: > 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. One possible reason may be that the media that you are using reports that is only for a certain speed? However I have never tested this theory out myself, I have a feeling that cdrecord will set its speed down to what the disc indicates as its maximum record speed. -- o) Derek Wueppelmann (o (D . monkey@monkey.homeip.net D). ((` http://monkey.homeip.net/ ( ) `
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