horrible burning speeds in k3b

gnychis · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:13 am Post subject: horrible burning speeds in k3b

Hi all,

I have an NEC 3540A burner which can burn DVD-R at 8x (I've tested this in Windows with Nero), however when I try to burn with the same discs in linux with K3B I get anywhere from 1.5x-4x. This is horrible, it takes twice as long.

I am not sure what settings to check in k3b or how else to solve this, i've noticed others with NEC burners have this problem:
http://k3b.plainblack.com/message-bo...rner--too-slow

however I have no clue how to fix it, any ideas?

Thanks!
George

The_P · Apprentice Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 248

Have you activated the dma mode?
hdparm /dev/*** and hparm -I /dev/*** for looking if its activated.

gnychis · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject:

yep