Subject: Re: Low speed cd burning on powerbook g4
To: Davide Zanon <d.zanon@ininito.it>
From: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/08/2005 15:58:42
Well you can try "forcespeed" and see if that makes it go, or try your
luck with some other media. Thats about the extent of advice I can give,
sorry.

On Sun, 8 May 2005, Davide Zanon wrote:

> On Sunday 08 May 2005 19:41, Chris Tribo wrote:
> > What does cdrecord -atip dev=/dev/rcd0c say about the media?
>
> ATIP info from disk:
>   Indicated writing power: 5
>   Is not unrestricted
>   Is not erasable
>   Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4)
>   ATIP start of lead in:  -12369 (97:17/06)
>   ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
> Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
> Manuf. index: 69
> Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited
> Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embargo.
> The orange forum likes to get money for recent information.
> The information for this media may not be correct.
> I can't see anything about speed...
>
> > Are you using a CD-RW or some type of CAV media? Those are typically 10X
> > at a maximum.
>
> It's a 48x 700MB imation cd-r
>
> > Are you enabling burnfree/BurnProof(TM)/JustLink(TM)?
>
> No, I always forget to do that, but sometimes I have tried and it's not
> changed...
>
> david
>
> !DSPAM:427e6d5b22973797167107!
>

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