Alternative to k3b? or why is everything soooooo slow?
Bruce Labitt
bruce.labitt at verizon.net
Sun Nov 6 13:59:00 EST 2005
Thanks for the suggestions on a DVD burner... Now I need some help in
getting the burner to write dvd's at anywhere near the advertised rate!
I've got a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-110D running in UltraDMA/66 mode. I'm
using KDE 3.4.2a running SuSE9.0 and kernel 2.4.21.297. The device is
listed as /dev/hdc and linked as /dev/dvdrecorder.
When I used k3b to burn a SuSE9.3 iso it only ran at a burn rate of
0.4X. This is somewhat irritating since it is rated as at least a 8x
drive when burning +R media. Worse than taking 2.5 hours to burn a
potential coaster is the fact that my system clock was more than 1 hour
off [slow] after burning a full dvd!
I read on the k3b site that this is a problem on some machines and not
others. Also there is a comment to disable suseplugger and kded in
order to burn dvds/cds. I tried this and it does not seem to materially
change anything.
So to the questions: Is there a better program to use for this
purpose? Is there something that I can do to get k3b to work better?
I'm not too swift at the CLI, but am willing to try about anything here...
TIA
Bruce
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