can't burn a cd faster than 4x with gnomebaker

[googlymoogly]

Why can I not burn past 4x with any of my cd/dvd burning applications? The only app I've found that even works for me is Gnomebaker. It's the only burning app that I can get to work successfully, aside from K3B, which I don't use anymore because I found out how much better Gnome is than KDE recently. Even with K3B though, I could not burn faster than 4x. My drive is 52x!!!

This is what happens when I try to go faster with gnomebaker:

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cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -sao mode.
cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
scsidev: '2,1,0'
scsibus: 2 target: 1 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a32 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2007 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'MATSHITA'
Identifikation : 'UJ-840D         '
Revision       : '1.02'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.
Current: CD-R
Profile: DVD+R/DL
Profile: DVD+R
Profile: DVD+RW
Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite
Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording
Profile: DVD-R sequential recording
Profile: DVD-ROM
Profile: CD-RW
Profile: CD-R (current)
Profile: CD-ROM
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1310720 = 1280 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Disk 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.

    Capacity  Blklen/Sparesz.  Type
     4104234             2048  No Media Present or Unknown Capacity
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 141987
Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 24 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 5 seconds.   4 seconds.   3 seconds.   2 seconds.   1 seconds.   0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is ON.
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
SAO startsec: -12369
Writing lead-in...
Lead-in write time:   24.101s
Writing pregap for track 1 at -150
Starting new track at sector: 0
cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 42 57 00 00 1B 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F1 00 03 00 00 3F DE 0A 00 2B 00 00 0C 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, deferred error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 16350 (valid)
resid: 63504
cmd finished after 5.056s timeout 200s
cdrecord: A write error occured.
cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.

write track data: error after 39944016 bytes
Writing  time:   62.683s
Average write speed  75.3x.
Min drive buffer fill was 97%
Fixating...
Fixating time:    0.001s
BURN-Free was never needed.
cdrecord: fifo had 693 puts and 630 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 629 times full, min fill was 98%.


what gives?

[wolfden]

I don't know the solution, but you can still use KDE apps in gnome. I still use k3b in gnome.

Have you tried different media? I know some burners can be fussy and only recognize it as certain speeds. I had a stack of disks one time that were 16x, but nothing would see it beyond 8x, even in windows.

[googlymoogly]

I managed to get Brasero to burn at 8x, but no faster. I realize K3B works in gnome, it's just that I would prefer to stick with gtk apps, don't ask why.

I read a post somewhere that i need to enable dma but I can't seem to do that.