Version: 0.11.23 and 0.11.18 (using KDE KDE 3.3.2) Installed from: Gentoo Packages Compiler: 3.3.5-20050130 OS: Linux K3b incorrectly states that my media and/or burner do not support selected speed(24x discs), and downgrades speed to 4x. This is a Pioneer dvr-109, 40X cdr write speed. Sony 24X cd-r media. DMA is active on all drives, firmware is up to date, and running as root does not fix issue. Here's debugging output, I canceled burn as soon as it said "Switching to 4X": Devices ----------------------- TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502 1008 (/dev/hdd, ) at /mnt/cdrom [CD-ROM; DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM] [None] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 1.40 (/dev/hdc, ) at /mnt/cdrw [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD+R; DVD+RW] [DVD-ROM; DVD-R Sequential; DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite; DVD-RW Sequential; DVD+RW; DVD+R; DVD+R Double Layer; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R] System ----------------------- K3b Version: 0.11.23 KDE Version: 3.3.2 QT Version: 3.3.4 Kernel: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 cdrecord ----------------------- /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6 /usr/bin/cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. /usr/bin/cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. scsidev: '/dev/hdc' devname: '/dev/hdc' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 SCSI buffer size: 64512 Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 Maximilian Decker NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to <burbon04 at gmx.de>. For more information please see http://burbon04.gmxhome.de/linux/CDREncryption.html. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Driveropts: 'burnfree' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'PIONEER ' Identifikation : 'DVD-RW DVR-109 ' Revision : '1.40' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Current: 0x0009 Profile: 0x002B Profile: 0x001B Profile: 0x001A Profile: 0x0016 Profile: 0x0015 Profile: 0x0014 Profile: 0x0013 /usr/bin/cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code. /usr/bin/cdrecord: If you need DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author for cdrecord-ProDVD. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Profile: 0x0011 Profile: 0x0010 Profile: 0x000A Profile: 0x0009 (current) Profile: 0x0008 Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1267712 = 1238 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Encoding speed : 451x (33779 sectors/s) for libedc from Heiko Eißfeldt Track1 Start: '32' (32) pregap1: 182 Track 01: audio 37 MB (03:45.13) no preemp pregapsize: 182 Track 02: audio 23 MB (02:18.84) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Track 03: audio 49 MB (04:53.06) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Track 04: audio 22 MB (02:11.96) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Total size: 132 MB (13:09.42) = 59207 sectors Lout start: 133 MB (13:11/32) = 59207 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4) ATIP start of lead in: -11834 (97:24/16) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 24 Manufacturer: SONY Corporation Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 300642 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real RAW/RAW96R mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is ON. Performing OPC... /usr/bin/cdrecord: Caught interrupt. Writing time: 11.885s /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets. /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. cdrecord comand: ----------------------- /usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdc speed=24 -raw96r driveropts=burnfree -eject -useinfo -audio -shorttrack /tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy1/Track01.wav /tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy1/Track02.wav /tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy1/Track03.wav /tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy1/Track04.wav In the copy CD dialog, it says that writer/media does not support 24X, switching to 4X. Before my previous burner(TDK) died, I was able to burn at full speed 16X. Seems as though k3b is either reading spped of drive or media incorrectly. This is a gentoo system, 1.5GHZ, 384 MB Ram. This is driving me batty. I was all excited about my new dvdr, and now I cannot even burn an audio CD in less than 30 minutes. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
this has nothing to do with k3b. cdrecord decreases the speed. use the little button near the speed selection combo to get the supported speds with that media. Be aware that not only the writer needs to be able to write at 24x but also the media.