[svlug] Dual layer dvd burner recommendations?

[Jeff Frost]

Brian,

Thanks for getting back to me!

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> Are you sure you're using media rated something higher than 8x?  Most
> recent drives will drop the speed down if it detects media that only
> supports a certain speed.

Indeed, both media were 48x rated (and I tried two for just that reason). 
But, doing cdrecord -prcap shows this:

   Maximum read  speed:  8467 kB/s (CD  48x, DVD  6x)
   Current read  speed:  8467 kB/s (CD  48x, DVD  6x)
   Maximum write speed:  1411 kB/s (CD   8x, DVD  1x)
   Current write speed:  1411 kB/s (CD   8x, DVD  1x)

Which tells me no go. :-(

> Alternatively, try adding "driveropts=forcespeed speed=XX" to your
> cdrecord commandline.  (That's assuming you're using cdrecord, of
> course.  If not, try reading the man page or docs for whatever you *are*
> using.)

Also, an excellent suggestion which I already tried to no avail. :-(

cdrecord -v speed=24 driveropts=forcespeed KNOPPIX_V3.9-2005-05-27-EN.iso

Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   8.0 in real TAO mode for single session.

I also even tried all the different drivers that cdrecord driver=help lists 
just for giggles, but that was also to no avail.

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