k3b in kubuntu 8.10 freezes at 16x and does not trottle down

[cjae]

Whenever I try to burn a data DVD disc, k3b uses auto to set speed and I must manually set it to 12x or k3b does not try to write disc. I have the latest firware in drive (1.11 I believe), but I have always had problems with burning dvd's with this drive.

Not that the drive may be malfuctioning, but that it is ALWAYS been slow burning dvds. I read somewhere a long time ago that plextor doesn't like the idea of free software, but don't know how valid it was. It takes me 20-30 mins to burn a data DVD (dvd5-4.4gigs). On Maxtor 16x dvd5 media.

I think back when I was using edgy, I download some kind of plextor tools for these problems, but can't remember.

The drive is set to IDE master (with no other optical drive on cable pata) on a i865 intel chipset.

[Sergio Meneses (sergiomeneses)]

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[Mihai Tanasescu (mihai-duras)]

A similar problem happens to me.

I have an LG DVD-Writer (attached in the comment all the dmesg, etc outputs) and if I use k3b with auto speed setting then my disc gets damaged with the writer only attempting to start writing but never successfully doing it.
It's like speeding up then down and so for 3-4 times before it gives an error.

Manually setting the write speed to 12x makes it work.

In Windows I never had this issue so I suspect my drive doesn't have a problem..but k3b might.

Can you help ?

[Mihai Tanasescu (mihai-duras)]

A similar problem happens to me.

I have an LG DVD-Writer (attached in the comment all the dmesg, etc outputs) and if I use k3b with auto speed setting then my disc gets damaged with the writer only attempting to start writing but never successfully doing it.
It's like speeding up then down and so for 3-4 times before it gives an error.

Manually setting the write speed to 12x makes it work.

In Windows I never had this issue so I suspect my drive doesn't have a problem..but k3b might.

Can you help ?

[Rohan Garg (rohangarg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, according to this report, you are not using the most recent version of this package for your Ubuntu release. Please upgrade to the most recent version and let us know if you are still having this issue. Thanks in advance.

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