[NBLUG/talk] Speeding up CDR burns

Robert Hayes rhayes at silcom.com
Wed Mar 9 13:17:13 PST 2005


Yee-ha!

I finally got around to opening the box, finding a longer cable, and recabling 
the drives as recommended. 

I'm burning at 20X easily. 

Thanks, everybody.

On Tuesday 01 February 2005 11:57 am, Robert Hayes wrote:
> Greetings, all.
>
> I'm wondering what I can do to increase the speed of my cd burns.
>
> The drive is a Plextor rated to burn CDRs at 24X.
> The best reliable burn speed I've gotten is 10X.
> At 12X the buffer is prone to underrun if anything else is happening on the
> box.
>
> The box is a 2.2GHz with 512MB ram. I'm running Debian 3.0. The drive is a
> 30GB 7200 rpm and I've optimized the throughput with hdparm.
>
> My cdrecord is Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01
> The cdrdao is Cdrdao version 1.1.9
>
> Usually I just run K3B to burn files.
> The cdrecord buffer size is set to 128MB.
> The cdrdao block size is set to 128 blocks.
>
> Is there anything I can do to take advantage of the higher available burn
> speeds of the drive?
>
> Thanks!
>
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