--- "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: ... > > > I never tried 4 but I noticed that on my burner > - > > > > > > speed=8 works > > > speed=12 and cdrecord uses 8 > > > speed=16 works > > > speed=20 and cdrecord uses 16 > > > speed=24 works > > > > > > Seems that at least for me, cdrecord only likes > > > multiples of 8. > > > > > > Also - try burning with -pad and -dao > > > > > > cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdd -speed=8 -pad -dao -v > > > FC3-whatever.iso > > > > > Hi Michael. I tried speed=8. Incredibly, this worked. The speed actually got set to 8. speed=2 and speed=4 ended up getting me 48x, which was too fast for the CDR media that I was using. Very silly. cdrecord 1.10 must have some kind of override if it thinks that the hardware can handle the higher rate. Unfortunately, although the drive can handle this rate, the media cannot. I guess that it is an easy to make mistake. But, it still did not work. speed=8 generated lots of bad copies that failed linux mediacheck. So, I tried the other options, -dao and -pad. I don't know which one it was, but I succeeded on the first try. Note that I searched google, but did not find any help on this issue. I think that google can see the FC list, so this post should offer some guidance to some poor victims in the future. It is amazing how much Linux has progressed. When I first tried installing Linux, many years ago, it would not install. It took me nearly 6 months to debug and rewrite the SCSI driver so that I could install it. This time, I think that it will take nearly as long, but looking at cdrecord, there is no way I could find and fix the issues in 6 months. It is just too darn complex. And, that is just to create the CD's! I guess that there is a long way to go, still. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
