On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Gerry Doris wrote: > > > I tried with diferent media.. and I getting the same > > results, all of them say that I can write at 16x... > > strange > > > > Rigo > > > >>It's the cdrw you're using. Look at the package the > >>cdrw came in. Does > >>it say something like 1x-4x or 4x Multi Speed? If it > >>does the max speed > >>you can write to the cdrw is 4x no matter how fast > >>your > >>cdrw drive is. > >> > >>This can't be changed because the 4x speed limit is > >>hardcoded in the > >>cdrw media itself and your cdrw drive and cdrecord is > > > >>using it to set > >>the max writing speed of the drive. > >> > >>This is what cdrecord is telling you via the > > following > >>lines. > >> > >>> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode > >>for > >>> single session. > > You may want to consider going to the cdrecord website and downloading the > latest copy of the rpms. The author claims that the version shipped with > RH 8.0 is broken and shouldn't be used. He has rpms for RH 8.0 available > on his site. > It is refering to X-CDRoast, though I wouldn't say the version of xcdroast Redhat ships is broken, the versions Redhat shipped with 7.1,7.2 were outdated and the xcdroast directory had the wrong permissions set. Found out when I tried upgrading the package that came 7.2 with the most recent one at the time from the xcdroast home page. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list