K3B won't burn at 16X;

[John Wendel]

tlc wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 09:11 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>>Mirco Scara wrote:
>>
>>>Hello guys,
>>>I am having a strange problem using K3B on fedora core 3/4.
>>>I have a Philips DVD writer 16X/8Xrw 40x for cd in my machine and
>>>whenever I  burn dvds K3B won't recognize the full capabilities of my
>>>burner.
>>>Even if I choose auto mode for dvd writing speed k3b still writes at 8x
>>>maximum and there is no mention in the speed section of the 16x choice.
>>>Is there anyway I can I can hack k3b configuration in order to get this
>>>feature enabled?
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks a lot.
>>>
>>>
>>>Mirco
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>What do the log messages state?
>>
>>Is the media capable of burning at that speed?
> 
> nothing in the logs I have seen, no errors, I am using the correct
> media, it just always burns at half speed.
> 
> 
>>-- 
>>Robin Laing
>>
> 
> 


When you use 8X media, does it burn at 8X?

I only have 8X media and it always burns at 8X in auto mode. For some 
crappy no-brand stuff I slow it down to 6X and this also works fine.

Regards,

John