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SabreWolfy

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 1,269

xfburn speed

Not strictly #!, but a question about xfburn. The specs for the DVD writer in my laptop indicate it can write DVD+R at 8X. I'm burning ISO files to DVD as files as a backup using xfburn. Not knowing the speed of the drive at the time, I set xbfurn to 8X instead of "max". However, the DVD was burning at around 4X when I checked it towards the end of the run.

I ran another burn on a second DVD+R with different ISO files and it was at 2X and has now dropped to 1X and now to 0.7X at 21%. Writing a full DVD at 1X takes a long time ... any ideas what's going on here? I think the burn is gonna fail ...

Burn stalled at 21% and I aborted it. Running xfburn from terminal to see any additional output. No additional output, but burn stabilized at 3.6X. Why?

Last edited by SabreWolfy (2012-04-28 13:45:53)

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damo

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From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 653

Re: xfburn speed

If you get no joy from xfburn responses, have you considered using wodim? (it's in debian stable main)

wodim --devices

wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) :
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 0  dev='/dev/sg1'    rwrw-- : 'TSSTcorp' 'DVD+-RW TS-L633C'
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Then you can combine the device file of the burning device with the wodim command to write the actual ISO image:

wodim -eject  -tao speed=0 dev=/dev/sg1 -v -data /path/to/image.iso

If you get an error message saying something like: "wodim: trying to use a high speed medium on low speed writer" try using a higher burning speed such as speed=1 or speed=2:

I've stopped using xfburn for iso's since I found wodim

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SabreWolfy

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Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 1,269

Re: xfburn speed

^ Thanks. Ive just starting burning the third and final DVD I need to today, but I'll definitely look at wodim next time.

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damo

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From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 653

Re: xfburn speed

^ check out this #! how-to-burn-an-iso-to-dvd-cli

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SabreWolfy

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Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 1,269

Re: xfburn speed

^ Thanks, will check it out. (Just to clarify though, I am burning several ISOs to DVD directly as files to serve as backups; I'm not burning them to boot from.)

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damo

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From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 653

Re: xfburn speed

^Yes, I realised that

There was a thread not long ago IIRC, discussing wodim/readom vs dd vs xfburn, as backup tools

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