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Any way to make drive ignore CD rating?

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glugglug

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All the rewritable CDs labeled as 4x are detected as such by my CD-RW drive, and it won't allow me to write them above 4x. Usually I use them in UDF format anyways, so if it gets errors and has to rewrite sections its no big deal. Any way to force the drive to always use at least 12x no matter what the media rating?
 
CD-RW drives will read the rated speed information from an RW disc, and the firmware will prevent it from attempting recording at the wrong speed.

CD-RW HS (high speed) discs use a different formulation to conventional CD-RW discs. Both formulations have narrow usable speed ranges - recording too quickly or too slowly does not work well, hence drives do not support out-of-spec speeds. CD-RW HS needed a change in the disc formulation as well as support from the writers. CD-R only needed a change in the writer (although some of the oldest disc formulations don't work well at very high speeds e.g. 24x, 32x, etc.)
 
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