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Question

Hardware Level: How to change CD/DVD write speed

Oct 10, 2011 3:31PM PDT

<span id="INSERTION_MARKER">For me 16x CD write speed is okay.
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<span>Fresh installed ub 10.4 over 8.04
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<span>I have old hardware which was able to write DVDs at 1x.
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<span>I dont get speed of less than 4x.Tested k3b, xfburn, and brasero. But all start at 4x.
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<span>How can I do it?
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<span>Thanks in advance......

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1X is the max. speed?
Oct 12, 2011 1:58PM PDT

Maybe it's time to open that wallet and invest a new drive or you could try the "auto" setting and see where it will do. Good luck.

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test result
Oct 12, 2011 2:24PM PDT

Hi ahtoi

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Link, comment.
Oct 13, 2011 8:38AM PDT
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Q?
Oct 13, 2011 3:26PM PDT

<span id="INSERTION_MARKER"> So its IMPOSSIBLE???

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Nothing is impossible.
Oct 14, 2011 5:47AM PDT

But did you submit the bug? Until it's reported they won't know about it.

I thought I'd look at the bug list and the ones I found tell me to see if the drive has firmware updates.

AND I always get out my CD/DVD lens cleaner when I suspect a write failure.
Bob

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(NT) Should I post a bug report for this?
Oct 15, 2011 3:16AM PDT
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(NT) Only if you want them to address it.
Oct 16, 2011 5:29AM PDT
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Not problem.
Nov 3, 2011 2:18AM PDT

Although many of the GUIs report speeds faster than your burner can burn, with burn-free enabled any setting will be fine because the burner will ONLY burn as fast as it can, and handshake to receive more data into it's buffer as it has room.

Believe me, even with DMA disabed the burner, if functioning properly, will burn perfectly usable media, although it will take a really long time.

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This is true except
Nov 3, 2011 2:20AM PDT

When the drive is old or defective as above.

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Drive
Nov 3, 2011 2:25PM PDT

Okay I admit the drive is old.

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That's debateable.
Nov 3, 2011 3:20PM PDT

Since a new drive fixes it, you can debate if the old drive has an issue or if the new software has decided to no longer work around this old drive's issues.

Here this is less than 20 to fix.
Bob

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change CD/DVD write speed
Nov 6, 2011 3:27PM PST

Hi..

you can change CD/DVD write speed by Selecting the drive speed for CDs and DVDs. Choose CD writing speeds that
range from 4x, 8x, 10x, 16x and max, depending on the speed of your
drive. Choose DVD speeds that range from 2.0x, 2.4x, 3.0x, 3.3x, 4.0x
and max, depending on the speed of your drive as well. These are typical
speeds for a laptop computer.Read more: How to Change the Read-Write Speed on a DVD Drive | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_4928775_change-readwrite-speed-dvd-drive.html#ixzz1d0BQjLe8