LDW-400D DVDinfo Speed?

[heiber]

I ran DVDinfo on my Lite On LDW-400D drive without any media loaded and got the following results:

Drive Information
LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-400D
APR02 ,2003
Firmware Revision 1.2C
Serial # AE28DEDE
Internal interface ATAPI
Loader type Tray
User Region changes left 5
Vendor Region changes left 4
No region has been set
Drive conforms to RPC-2
Current Write Speed 4234KBs 3.1x
Drive Report Speed 4234KBs 3.1x
Buffer size 8192KB

How come the speed is reported at 3.1X since this is a 4X burner? Am I interpretting this correctly?

[vric]

Burning speed is determined by the media and not the drive.. if you have no media, the drive can't give the max speed

Same thing with my LG drive.. if I don't put any media, it say the max speed is 1.5X... always put a media before opening you software recorder