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That disc has been formatted with 'spare areas' enabled. When that's the case, the drive's 'defect management' kicks in and basically verifies the disc as it burns - hence the slow down. You'll have to do another full erase/format on it to get rid of them and turn it off.

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Erased the disk and now writes at full speed!  Many thanks for your help, you learn something new every day.

 

PS where does it say in the log file that a disk has 'spare areas' enabled'?

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It doesn't... but I can tell from the number of available sectors.

 

The 'Hardware Defect Management Active' line should say 'Yes', but a little cosmetic bug in 2.5.7.0 means that it always says 'No' :)

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