On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 16:01 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 12:04 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > > Sure, I could Google, but I don't trust "them" as much as I do you. I'm > > about to write an iso file to a double layer Dvd. I'd like to hear just > > what is a good burn speed. The box sez no more than 8X. Well, what would > > be better? 1X? 2X? 4X? I'd rather it not take the weekend to burn 7.4 > > gigs. But, these darn disks are expensive. I really don't want to make a > > $4 coaster. What say you?? Any caveats? Thanks, Ric > > > > > run: cdrecord -prcap > > It tells you things like that. Mine reported: Maximum read speed: 8467 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Current read speed: 8467 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Maximum write speed: 8467 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Current write speed: 8467 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Rotational control selected: CLV/PCAV Buffer size in KB: 2048 Copy management revision supported: 1 Number of supported write speeds: 9 Write speed # 0: 8467 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Write speed # 1: 7056 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 40x, DVD 5x) Write speed # 2: 5645 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 32x, DVD 4x) Write speed # 3: 4234 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 24x, DVD 3x) Write speed # 4: 2822 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 16x, DVD 2x) Write speed # 5: 2112 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 12x, DVD 1x) Write speed # 6: 1764 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 10x, DVD 1x) Write speed # 7: 1411 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 8x, DVD 1x) Write speed # 8: 706 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 4x, DVD 0x) But I took Kurt's advice, burned at 2X and now am the proud Papa of a brand new Dvd. From this list I could burn at 6X?? Ric -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
