k3b Burn Speed

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:07:55 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Allen wrote:

> Why does k3b have the annoying habit of burning CDs at 2/3rd or less of
> the drive speed ?  gtoast and xcdroast didn't seem to have this problem,
> but k3b does.  My drive is 52x24x52 and gtoast used to drive it happily
> at 26x or 27x burn speed.  k3b resolutely refuses to burn any faster
> than 16x on exactly the same hardware.

Can you burn 52x with cdrecord?
 
> Can I turn the Optimum Power Calibration off - after all, this is a
> desktop where power conservation, laudable though it is in a laptop
> running on batteries, is not an issue - and get it to speed back up ?

No. OPC is done to determine the burning power of the laser in your
CD writer. It has nothing to do with the rest of your computer.

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