I can't speak for others, but I can tell you how things have been working for me.
First of all, the system I'm using is a quad-core Core 2 running at 3.4GHz, and the drive I'm using is a 22x SATA DVD burner that supports DMA. All of those things conspire to hide software inefficiencies. The drive is identified as "TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F". I tried burning an ISO to a DVD-R that was just short of filling the disk. The drive is CAV, so it starts out slow, because the data rate is slower on the inner tracks. As it spirals outwards, it speeds up. But it never made it past about 16x. Some people have told me that I should see at least 20x. Others have told me that I should consider myself lucky that it was that fast. It turns out that the disc I burned to is rated at 16x, but this drive is designed to be able to burn at higher speeds than the disc ratings. That is, I should be able to burn this 16x disc at 22x because of some magic in the way the drive is designed. So to summarize, with K3b, I was able to burn at the disc's rated speed, which is fantastic. The fact that K3b set the drive speed to the rating of the disc and not to what the drive is actually capable of doing with that disc may be a bug. -- k3b error when writing and verifying DVDs using slimline drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114758 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
