[cdrecord speed= option]

[Adam McDougall]

Do you know if the hardware even supports 6x?  I wouldnt be suprised if
it only supports 1,2,4,or 8. 

Matt Graham wrote:
> 
> Mark Szidik <szidikm@mlc.lib.mi.us> wrote:
> >
> > Using cdrecord with an IDE Acer 8x4x32 drive.  I can't get
> > cdrecord to run at speed=6 when I set it to 6 it just runs at 4x.
> >
> > The drive will not run at 8x at all.
> > Anybody know why cdrecord wont run at 6x?
> 
> Which version of cdrecord?  And what is the exact error message that cdrecord
> returns when you try speed=8?  It doesn't surprise me that the drive won't run
> at 6x--it seems that CD-R(W)s are mostly finicky about the speeds they run at,
> as I used to have a 4/4/16 drive that refused to burn CD-Rs at anything other
> than 4x (though it burned RWs at 1, 2, and 4).  And of course, if you have an
> RW blank in the drive (or the drive thinks you have an RW blank) then it'll
> only go at 4x.
> 
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