Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 27730
cdrecord-1.9-5 limited to 12x write speed
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:29 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14 i686) I was making coasters at the rated speed of my HP 9500 CD/RW drive, so I decided to try a slower setting. I quickly discovered that while you can specify either higher or lower speeds, the setting is often ignored. I thus started a bunch of -dummy burns with increasing speed= parameters to see what values appear to work and which don't: Speed: Requested: Actual: 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 4 5 4 6 4 7 4 8 8 9 8 10 8 11 8 12 12 No number above 12 works faster than 12. (I tried up to 32) Since burners can be purchased with speeds of 10 and 16 (maybe higher) I consider this a bug worthy of squashing. Reproducible: Always Chris Kloiber
while this would be nice, I'm not going to do it. The reason: I have no idea how this works, do not understand SCSI, and do not have time or test machines. I suggest contacting the upstream authors on this one.