I recently switched to Red Hat 8.0. I have, in previous distrobutions, burned CDs at a reasonably fast speed (5 minutes per CD, I am estimating), with a 16x burner. However, with Red Hat 8.0, when burning CDs, it takes slighly over an hour to burn a full ISO. I pass the speed=16 option to cdrecord (I've even tried speed=8 option after the speed=16 option was so slow twice), but both times took like 3800 seconds to burn the CD.
A search for google for cdrecord red hat slow revealed nothing

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