A common rating for standard CD-RW discs is 4x (maximum). I have a 5 =
pack of them sold a under the TDK label.

If the media is only rated at 4x, that's all you're going to get out of =
it.

There are free utilities available that will read the media info for =
you. Here's one of them:
http://upload.cdfreaks.com/Kprobe/SMARTBURN2.0.zip

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Snarky Parker
.......Please respond to newsgroup only (e-mail is blocked)
Win2K SP4/IE6 SP1/Office XP SP2/Nero 5.5.10.50
Intel Celeron-S 1300 MHz, 512 MB Ram

"Charles Howse" wrote in message =
...
Hello Group,
I hate to crosspost, so if this isn't the proper group, please let me =
know.
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I am using cdbakeoven 1.8.9 on KDE 3.1.4 on FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13.
I have an AOPEN CD-RW CRW5224, which is 52x Record 24x Rewrite 52x =
Read.
This burner worked beautifully in Windows.
I have read Andy McFadden's CD-Recordable FAQ, but can't find an =
answer to
this.
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I can't burn faster than 4x
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Can anoyne help me solve this issue?
A debug dump from the last burn session I ran is included at the =
bottom of
this msg.
This session was burning an iso file to a CD-RW disk.
The disk is an Imation 650MB, 74 Min.
If I can tell you anything else, please let me know.
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TIA,
Charles
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----- Begin debug dump -----
Checking recording device!
scsidev: '00,01,00'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
Driver options:
burnfree Prepare writer to use BURN-Free technology
noburnfree Disable using BURN-Free technology
forcespeed Tell the drive to force speed even for low quality =
media
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.8) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 =
J=F6rg
Schilling
TOC Type: 1 =3D CD-ROM
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Driveropts: 'help'
atapi: 0
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'AOPEN '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRW5224 '
Revision : '1.06'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Driver for the current drive is present and valid!
Starting burn process!
fs: 4194304 buflen: 4198400
cdrecord: shared memory segment attached at: 2814B000 size 4198400
buf: 2814B000 bufend: 2854C000, buflen: 4198400
buf: 2814B000 bufend: 2854C000, buflen: 4198400 (align 0)
scsidev: '00,01,00'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
scg__open() 0,1,0
SCSI buffer size: 64512
scgo_getbuf: 64512 bytes
File: '/disk2/moe/4.8-RELEASE-i386-mini.iso' itracksize: 209289216 =
isecsize:
2048 tracktype: 1 =3D CD-ROM sectype: 21 =3D CD-ROM mode 1 dbtype: =
CD-ROM mode
1 flags 1080
dev: '00,01,00' speed: 52 fs: -1 driveropts 'burnproof'
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.8) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 =
J=F6rg
Schilling
TOC Type: 1 =3D CD-ROM
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Driveropts: 'burnproof'
atapi: 0
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'AOPEN '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRW5224 '
Revision : '1.06'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1359872 =3D 1328 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 =3D 4096 KB
bufsize: 65536 buffers: 64 hdrsize 1280
bufsize: 65536 buffers: 64 hdrsize 1280
Track 01: data 199 MB
Total size: 229 MB (22:42.58) =3D 102194 sectors
Lout start: 229 MB (22:44/44) =3D 102194 sectors
Pages: 0x1 0x3 0x5 0x7 0x8 0xD 0xE 0x1A 0x1C 0x1D 0x2A 0x2C 0x30
Pages: 0x1 0x3 0x5 0x7 0x8 0xD 0xE 0x1A 0x1C 0x1D 0x2A 0x2C 0x30
Current Secsize: -1
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Reference speed: 2
Is not unrestricted
Is erasable
ATIP start of lead in: -11635 (97:26/65)
ATIP start of lead out: 337350 (75:00/00)
1T speed low: 0 (reserved val 0) 1T speed high: 4
2T speed low: 8 2T speed high: 0 (reserved val 10)
power mult factor: 4 6
recommended erase/write power: 3
A1 values: 02 4C B0
A2 values: 4A C8 06
Disk type: Phase change
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Blocks total: 337350 Blocks current: 337350 Blocks remaining: 235156
Using 64 buffers of 64512 bytes.
Forcespeed is OFF.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 52 in real TAO mode for single =
session.
Last chance to quit, starti1 seconds.
0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ...
input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is ON.
Performing OPC...
secsize:2048 secspt:31 bytespt:63488 audio:0 pad:0
Burning Track 0 of 199 MB written., percent done:
100% : 199 of 199 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 4.2x.
gets: 1 puts: 64 cont: 63 low: 64
gets: 2 puts: 64 cont: 62 low: 63
gets: 3 puts: 64 cont: 61 low: 62
gets: 4 puts: 64 cont: 60 low: 61
gets: 10 puts: 69 cont: 59 low: 60
gets: 11 puts: 69 cont: 58 low: 59
gets: 12 puts: 69 cont: 57 low: 58
gets: 13 puts: 69 cont: 56 low: 57
faio_reader _exit(0)
NOTICE: reducing block size for last record.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 209289216/209289216 (102192 =
sectors).
Writing time: 344.090s
Average write speed 4.0x.
Min drive buffer fill was 100%
Fixating...
Fixating time: 77.412s
BURN-Free was never needed.
cdrecord: fifo had 3297 puts and 3297 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 3215 times full, min fill was =
87%.
Burn completed successfully!
Operation completed successfully!


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