On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 02:07:48AM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > 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. > Makes sense; next time I'll try it with speed > 8 and see if it obeys. But that raises the other question: does it even make sense to burn an audio CD at < maximum anyway? Are there errors introduced by burning RedBook CD's at higher speeds? -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
