[ale] Cendyne external USB cd-rw

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jeff Rose wrote:
> Yeah, I read that they are out of business, but I went ahead and bought
> the drive.  Works fine so far.  I burned a couple o' coasters until I
> figured out that you have to set speed=1 with cdrecord.  It still burned
> ~700 mb in about 10 mins though.  So I'm guessing the speed is relative
> to the max of the drive because 1X would have take a LONG time.

No, speed=1 is speed=1 on any drive.  If you can't burn at a higher 
speed, then either the media is lousy, the hardware is lousy or a bit of 
both.  I personally wouldn't have a burner that would require me to burn 
at 1x.

Could it be a limitation of the interface? (usb)

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