On Feb 7, 2009, at 11:32 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Yes I'm just burning from iTunes.  I had a firewire CD-R before and it
> wrote much faster (14X +) before it finally died.  The wierd thing
> with this new drive is that iTunes rarely displays the write speed,
> just finish time, but when it does it doesn't really get above 8X.

More than likely, even with Patchburn, the drive is not correctly  
identifying and reporting the speed of the media inserted, so the OS  
is burning at the speed it thinks it is. When you drop down the speed  
listing (where it currently is listed as Maximum speed possible) what  
does it offer?

-- 
Bruce Johnson

"Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai,  PhD


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