I now have DVD burning etc all working (apart from that speed issue)
Do you have good 8x media?
My 4x drive frequently burns at just over 2x - at first I suspected the media, although they are rated 4x on the box and use what is supposed to be a good dye (Ritek G40 I think). But... they always seem to burn at 4x in Nero on W98 so maybe there is some little bug lurking in K3b.
It does tend to autodetect the burner as 2x not 4x so something is not yet quite right (may be fixed in later versions - I am still stuck with k3b 0.11.4 / kde3.1 until I install mandrake 10).
I have also read somewhere that for fast burning speeds the DVD should be the only drive on the ide channel which should be >= 100 speed and it should be connected with an 80-pin cable - which sounds like the belt-and-braces-and-kitchen-sink approach to me :-) But if it works...
I don't know enough about 4x/8x dvd data burning speeds to know if the ide bus speed can really be a bottleneck - can anyone give some info here please?
Syd