[ltp] DVD not working

[Richard Neill]

>> However, media rated for 32x can still be written (at lower speed) 
>> with a 4x drive?  Are you saying that there exists any combination of 
>> CD-RW drive media which cannot burn at all, not even at 1x speed?
> 
> Absolutely.  If you have an old CD-RW that only writes at 4x, and newer 
> CD-RW media that supports 8x writing speed, try to write the newer 
> media in the older drive.  It'll fail miserably, and cdrecord should 
> give you appropriate error messages in that case.  I've had this happen 
> to me at least once.  This is because faster CD-RW media require 
> different combinations of speed and laser power from the drive and 
> laser than slower media.  (Strange, no good tech data on PickyWeedia 
> for this particular bit.) 

Now, that is most interesting. I thought that the worst-case was a 
fallback to 1x speed. Is this also true for CD-R media, or is it only 
CD-RW that is this picky?


Richard