23 Apr
2010
23 Apr
'10
10:06 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 04:09:57PM -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote:
It's very probably not a matter of slowing down the rotation
of the disk - it has to work at normal read speeds anyway.
The limiting factor could well be the minimum power at which
the write laser can operate - lower write speed requires less
power.
Ciao,
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FA
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E guerra e morte !
OTOH, speed 8
is already quite slow, and it may well be the
lowest one supported by your drive (just guessing this).
Sort of off topic ... but I had some older 2x DVD-RW discs that I
tried to burn on my current system. No way. I tossed the discs, my
assumption being that the drive could not go slow enough for the disc.
If I recall, I tired all the various speed= commands with growisofs,
cdrdao, etc. They would report back 8 or 4x (don't recall). I find it
somewhat odd that a drive will not slow down and am wondering if that
is due to the linux drivers or the actual drives.