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makh

Member

Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 305

Hardware Correction: How to change DVD write speed

I am now on Kernel 2.6.32-26

For me 16x CD write speed is okay.

I have old hardware which was able to write DVDs at 1x, back in previous linux version.

Now, I dont get speed of less than 4x.

Tested on k3b, xfburn, and brasero. But all start at bottom 4x write speed. k3b forced back to 4x.

Tried on the cli tools like: growisofs, wodim, cdrecord, dvdrecord,  makedvd. The speed forced back to 4x.

EXAMPLE:
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~$ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J -speed=1 /~/data2
Executing 'genisoimage -R -J /~/data2 | builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
  0.22% done, estimate finish Mon Oct 10 11:06:16 2011
  0.44% done, estimate finish Mon Oct 10 11:06:17 2011
  0.66% done, estimate finish Mon Oct 10 11:06:17 2011
/dev/dvd: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1352KBps.
  0.88% done, estimate finish Mon Oct 10 11:46:02 2011
  1.10% done, estimate finish Mon Oct 10 11:39:35 2011

>>>>>>>>> It seems the problem is in the device detection or configuration.

How can I do it?

Thanks in advance......

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karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Hardware Correction: How to change DVD write speed

Sorry for not being able to help with the burn speed, but why are you using such an old kernel? Are you using Arch Linux?

makh

Member

Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 305

Re: Hardware Correction: How to change DVD write speed

Actually I am on ubuntu 10.4 LTS. It is under current support actually.

In previous versions this was not a problem.

I could not get the answer from ubuntu forum, so tried here, as I see that arch users are more into linux technically.

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R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: Hardware Correction: How to change DVD write speed

Actually I am on ubuntu 10.4 LTS. It is under current support actually.

In previous versions this was not a problem.

I could not get the answer from ubuntu forum, so tried here, as I see that arch users are more into linux technically.

This is not an ubuntu support forum. It says so very clearly at the top of the page.

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: Hardware Correction: How to change DVD write speed

As R00KIE stated - ask on an Ubuntu forum.
Closing.

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