On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 04:09:57PM -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote: > > OTOH, speed 8 is already quite slow, and it may well be the > > lowest one supported by your drive (just guessing this). > > Sort of off topic ... but I had some older 2x DVD-RW discs that I > tried to burn on my current system. No way. I tossed the discs, my > assumption being that the drive could not go slow enough for the disc. > If I recall, I tired all the various speed= commands with growisofs, > cdrdao, etc. They would report back 8 or 4x (don't recall). I find it > somewhat odd that a drive will not slow down and am wondering if that > is due to the linux drivers or the actual drives. It's very probably not a matter of slowing down the rotation of the disk - it has to work at normal read speeds anyway. The limiting factor could well be the minimum power at which the write laser can operate - lower write speed requires less power. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
