SaberBlaze

Oh ok, thanks for your help Lightning. I was only reiterating what we are told. In the distro I use, if anybody has any issues with the system (after installing I believe) the first thing they ask is if you burned it at a recommended slower speed, since large amounts of data are compressed into a much smaller space, any byte or bit that's off might cause errors later on. Well, that's all beyond me, if I need to burn a live-cd I'll use 6x. Again, thanks for your help.

Well ok, but it's just that for some Linux live-cds, we're told to burn at a lower speed because of the high compression that those live-cds use. However, I think speeds of below 8x should be fine, so 6x is acceptable I supposed. Thanks for your help.

I have some blank dvd-r's by the brand name of TDK. They state they support burn speeds of 1-16x. The device window of imgburn states the supported writing speeds are 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x, 18x. The burner supports up to 20x, which I assume means 1-20x. So if the discs say they support 1-16x, why can't I burn below 6x? That's the information that the burner is giving imgburn, correct? So the drive is incorrectly stating the speeds, the slowest of 6x and the highest of 18x (which surpasses the advertised burn speed). Is there anything I can do? Btw, my burner is an external usb2 drive. HP DVD 1040d according to imgburn, although since it's an external drive I believe the enclosure is HP and the actual burner inside is another brand. Thanks for your help.