Cannot set proper CD burning speed

[Andrey Vihrov]

Binary package hint: nautilus-cd-burner

nautilus-cd-burner lets me choose burning speed starting from 14.1x and higher, but my DVD-RW drive can only record at maximum 10x. As a result, the CD is burned, but an error pops up in the end, saying "Error while burning, try lower speed".

nautilus-cd-burner version is 2.18.0-0ubuntu1. The drive is recognized as "DVD DW 8X16X8X16", and is located at /dev/scd0.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 18 11:38:41 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 2.18.0.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: nautilus --sm-config-prefix /nautilus-0JgrgN/ --sm-client-id 101e127476000117205159800000144830002 --screen 0
ProcCwd: /home/andrey
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_RU.UTF-8
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux Xel-Naga 2.6.20-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Mar 15 08:03:07 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Could you run /usr/lib/nautilus-cd-burner/list_cddrives with a CD to the drive and copy that to a comment?

[Andrey Vihrov (andrey.vihrov)]

Here it goes:

Drive:
  name: DVD DW 8X16X8X16
  device: /dev/scd0
  door: closed
  type: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, CD, DVD
  is mounted: FALSE
  max read speed: 8467 KiB/s (CD 56.4x, DVD 6.2x)
  max write speed: 8467 KiB/s (CD 56.4x, DVD 6.2x)
  write speeds: 8467 KiB/s (CD 56.4x, DVD 6.2x)
                        7056 KiB/s (CD 47.0x, DVD 5.2x)
                        5645 KiB/s (CD 37.6x, DVD 4.1x)
                        4234 KiB/s (CD 28.2x, DVD 3.1x)
                        2822 KiB/s (CD 18.8x, DVD 2.0x)
                        2117 KiB/s (CD 14.1x, DVD 1.5x)

Media:
  label: 'Ubuntu 6.10 amd64'
  type: CD-RW (rewritable) (has-data)
  is writable: TRUE
  is appendable: FALSE
  capacity: 701.00 MiB approx. or 80 mins 0 secs
  size: 690.64 MiB approx. or 78 mins 44 secs
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you also get an lshal log?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

On my desktop hal lists only one write speed, likely an hal or linux bug

[Andrey Vihrov (andrey.vihrov)]

Sure.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The list of speeds look fine, rather a nautilus-cd-burner bug then. Could you make a screenshot from the nautilus-cd-burner list of speeds also?

[Andrey Vihrov (andrey.vihrov)]

Yes, here it is.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

are you sure than the CD writing speed for your drive is limited to 10x? that's weird for DVD writer, they usually can do much faster CD writing, the list of DVD speeds looks correct

[Andrey Vihrov (andrey.vihrov)]

These screenshots make me think so. And if maximum speed is greater or equal to 14.1x, why then the error pops up, saying "Select lower speed"?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it's not clear if those screenshot display the CD or DVD recording speed, anyway the list of speeds comes from hal, that's either due to it or linux, reassigning

[Andrey Vihrov (andrey.vihrov)]

Well, those screenshots were taken while an empty rewriteable CD was in the drive. Also, I selected option "Burn CD", not DVD in both programs.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it's similar to bug #67034