CD burner write speed and cdrecord

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I think you'll find that the 48 is the speed at which it reads.  The unit 
writes at a slower speed - how slow depends on the unit itself (the bus 
it's on like IDE, SCSI, and how well made it is and the computer.  Usually 
the write speed is lower like 1,2,8,12x.

What is important is a speed at which it produces good CDs and this may be 
lower than what the vendor says is max spped.

> I am getting set to finally burn some cd's.  I have a 48 speed CD-R
> drive. I have only a vague idea what that means.
> 
> Here is a section of the man cdrecord regarding speed of writing:
> 
> ======man cdrecord on speed========
> speed = # Set the speed factor of the writing process to #. # is an
> integer, representing a multiple of the audio speed. This is about 150
> KB/s for CD-ROM and about 172 KB/s for CD-Audio. If no speed option is
> present, cdrecord will try to get the speed value from the CDR_SPEED
> environment. If your drive has problems with speed=2 or speed=4, you
> should try speed=0.
> =====end man cdrecord on speed=======
> 
> I would appreciate and English translation and some suggestions for
> setting the speed parameter. If I understand this this means I can set
> the speed of writing to 48. When I crank up the speed, either to 40 or
> 50, cdrecord says it is writing at speed = 32.
> 
> Does the type of disk (mfg or type) influence the top writing speed?
> 
> I have an 800megahertz Athlon processor.
> 
> Any insight appreciated,
> 
> Joel

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