Burn Disk from Image File only one speed 2.7x

[QuickN]

I am seeing only one burn speed option; 2.7x for creating a DVD image file for EMC 7.2; is this a software limitation? In the background I in Classic I see a potential of 8x but the only menu option shows 2.7x, too slow for me. This software came with my Plextor drive so I thought it might have speed limitations for the non shrink wrap version.

Any info on this would help

 

Thanks

 

[gi7omy]

It depends on the disc you have in - if it's RW then 2.7 is the max for that.

 

Although a drive may go to 8x, it actually depends on the disc. The firmware reads a small info track which tells it what the max write speed is and it will not go above that

[QuickN]

Media is DVD-R; it took 18 minutes to drop a 2.6 Gig ISO file; pain fully slow

[gi7omy]

OK - go to the drive maker and check for a firmware update - it's possible that the drive just isn't recognising the media and is defaulting to its lowest speed

[QuickN]

Thanks for the info; I found three different brands of media; two were unlabeled for speed; these could only achieve 2.7x must have been old media. Then I found a maxtor 4x DVD-R and it shows the max as 4X.

 

Thanks for the clue; I didnt think we had old bulk media floating around

 

Mike

[gi7omy]

No problem - glad it was something simple

 

I argued one time here with a guy for 2 days just because he wouldn't believe that you can NOT run a DVD writer past the max speed of the media