was Re: Alternative to k3b? now: DVD write is too slow

[Bruce Labitt]

mike ledoux wrote:

>Long story short, this result means that linux is able to read data
>from your drive at a reasonable speed.
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>>>What results do you get from a dummy burn after running that hdparm
>>>command?
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>>As for the dummy burn - can't do that with +R media apparently :(  Guess 
>>I'll make another coaster...
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>Wacky.
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Well, it may be able to read ok, but it sure still does not write ok.  
Did another k3b burn - average speed was 0.3x on a +R disk.
This was after using the following options on hdparm:

hdparm -X66 -c3 -u1 -d1 /dev/hdc

I'll buy some different media, maybe some -R stuff.

Here is something, I am running k3b under my user account.  When it 
first pops up k3b says:

cdrdao will be run without root privileges
It is highly recommended to configure cdrdao to run with root privileges 
to increase the overall stability of the burning process.
Solution: Use K3bSetup to solve this problem.

Of course there is no info on how to actually configure cdrdao to do 
this.  At least last night google was not my friend :(  All the websites 
I visited did not say how to configure cdrdao.  cdrdao --help wasn't too 
useful either.

Other than that, I'm stumped.  Maybe the machine is a candidate for the 
next meeting?  Can someone help me carry some of the stuff in?

Bruce