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PrimoTurbo

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Registered: 2008-06-26

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Slow DVD burn speed.

I'm having an issue, burning DVDs with K3b or most other software is slow. My LG DVD drive is capable of 16X speeds, I would have no problem burning at this speed under Windows XP. Under Arch I'm only burning at around 4X, you can imagine that it's quite slow. For comparison say a 4.3GB DVD takes me 3 times as long to burn, roughly 13-15min. I haven't tried burning CDs because I haven't bought them for a few years.

If this is of any help:

hdparm -I /dev/dvd | grep -i dma
    DMA: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4

Thanks for any help, I really need to resolve this because I burn DVDs quite often.

Last edited by PrimoTurbo (2008-07-22 11:53:29)

andre.ramaciotti

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Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: Slow DVD burn speed.

Are the DVDs of the same brand? Bad quality ones can't burn as fast as a good one.

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PrimoTurbo

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Registered: 2008-06-26

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Re: Slow DVD burn speed.

Same brand. Also I've tried at least 3 good quality brands with the same results.

Last edited by PrimoTurbo (2008-07-22 23:03:13)