On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:07:55 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Allen wrote: > Why does k3b have the annoying habit of burning CDs at 2/3rd or less of > the drive speed ? gtoast and xcdroast didn't seem to have this problem, > but k3b does. My drive is 52x24x52 and gtoast used to drive it happily > at 26x or 27x burn speed. k3b resolutely refuses to burn any faster > than 16x on exactly the same hardware. Can you burn 52x with cdrecord? > Can I turn the Optimum Power Calibration off - after all, this is a > desktop where power conservation, laudable though it is in a laptop > running on batteries, is not an issue - and get it to speed back up ? No. OPC is done to determine the burning power of the laser in your CD writer. It has nothing to do with the rest of your computer. -- Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.8-1.521 loadavg: 1.09 1.11 1.04
