40x burner

[choasforages]

hahhaa, i just got a new burner, now, what would the max on a 40x burner come out to be, cuase i set it to 40x and succesfully cut a disc without burn-proof enabled or anything/*might autodefault to it and not tell me*/ and this is all on my 400mhz k6-3, how fast was it cutting the disc, or more specically, how fast is it supposed to cut on at 40x

[Master of Reality]

nice... mine is only a 6X

[rtgwbmsr]

Unless you did it from the command line, it should autodetect the highest possible setting. How long did it take?

[voidmain]

Well, 650MB at 1x should be what, 74 minutes? 2x = 37 minutes? 4x = 18:30?  8x = 9:15? 16x ~ 4:38? 32x ~ 2:19? 40x ~ 1:50.  Of course I am just guessing on this.  If my calculations are correct then it would likely take longer to write the TOC than it would to write 650MB of data.  

[Ice-9]

Burning 730 MB at 40X takes 3.34 minutes.
The Lead in/Lead out part take almost as much time as the data itself.
In comparison, at 32X it takes 15 seconds more to burn the same amount of data.

[shuiend]

me and my 4x burner are going to hide from your amazing burning powers. I also am jelous. now i might have to go out and get a 48x just for the hell of it

[choasforages]

yeah, it took like 2.5 minutes, and as soon as the rebate comes in, it will have costed me $30

[voidmain]

Just curious what make/model of drive you bought, and where you bought it, and if the rebate thing is still in effect.  And I assume since this is in a Linux thread you are burning in Linux and If so, may I also assume you are using cdrecord (or xcdroast or other app which also uses cdrecord)?

[KernelPanic]

I might just get a 24x because the differences in real world speed after that arent that great. But hell it'll be a change from my 4x.

[choasforages]

im using gtoaster, and its some offbrand cdr drive, digital reasearch i think. now, isnt' there some format out their that lets you use a cdrw like a floppy, i forget the name of the standerd, does any version of linux support this, and it doens't matter if it is a beta kernel

[voidmain]

I think what you want to search for is "udf" support and "packet-cd".  Now here is the packet-cd home page:

http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/

But it looks like it hasn't had activity for a while. I don't know if that means that the current kernels have this support built in but I haven't done a lot of research on it. Let me know what you find out as I would also be interested to make this work. Might want to do a "make xconfig" in the kernel source directory to see if it lists these drivers... In fact I just looked in the Documentation directory in the kernel source that came with RedHat 7.3 and it has a udf.txt which indicates it is part of the later kernels.  You should find this doc here:

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt

I also notice that there is a "udf.o" under my /lib/modules/* directory so I assume udf support is compiled in as a module by default as I am currently using a default kernel from RedHat 7.3.

Now with a little more research it appears that my default kernel will only allow me to "read" UDF discs. But I have seen some threads that make it sound like some people have write access by getting the right patches and utilities. I think the link I gave you and the terms should be enough to help you find the answers...

[ September 17, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[choasforages]

thank you voidmain. im going to have to look this up, i wonder if its write only to root, or if i can just drag files from nautilus 2.0 into the disc, im going to look into this

[voidmain]

If it requires you to mount the disk then I would assume it follows all the mounting laws (you can set permissions up however you want).