[ltp] IBM T42 CDRW Speed

[Tino Keitel]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:23:53 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote:
> Rainarrow wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >  I suggest you to try some other CD-R discs. Sometimes the burner 
> >won't work at full-speed, even you are using some high-speed CD-Rs, 
> >due to some compatibility issues, I guess.
> 
> I have tried several brands, and I think I will need to do the 20 Floppy 
> disks thingie, that actually sucks!

I use a Toshiba SD-R2412, which is a 24x burner. Until now, I found
exactly one media type which reached the 24x speed at the end, and this
was a very old TDK 800 MB CD-R. I think this
in-firmware-media-type-speed mapping is just marketing crap, to be able
to write a high speed number on the packaging. No one can tell you what
currently available media type will reach the full burn speed...

Regards,
Tino