patinoki Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Hello, I have spent hours going through the FAQ and user guides. I now have about 25 fragile frisbees. I am using a Sony PCG-GRT360ZG Notebook computer. It has a Sony DVD RW DW-54A DVD drive. The IMGBURN support section recommended using Verbatim disks. I purchased 16X DVD+R DVDs and when I try to use them a pop-up says: Device Not ready (incompatible medium installed) The log shows the following: I 14:09:22 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started! I 14:09:22 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 14:09:22 Total Physical Memory: 521,708 KB - Available: 77,888 KB I 14:09:22 Initialising SPTI... I 14:09:22 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 14:09:22 Found 1 DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfcrule1972 Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 I would definitely upgrade your firmware to 2.5b and see if that fixes the issue, at the moment your drive doesn't like those discs and a firmware upgrade could well fix it ! You can grab the fw update from here, I use www.rpc1.org for all my drives to update their fw so don't worry about it. http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=1859 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patinoki Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share Posted June 13, 2007 I would definitely upgrade your firmware to 2.5b and see if that fixes the issue, at the moment your drive doesn't like those discs and a firmware upgrade could well fix it ! You can grab the fw update from here, I use www.rpc1.org for all my drives to update their fw so don't worry about it. http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=1859 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patinoki Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share Posted June 13, 2007 I would definitely upgrade your firmware to 2.5b and see if that fixes the issue, at the moment your drive doesn't like those discs and a firmware upgrade could well fix it ! You can grab the fw update from here, I use www.rpc1.org for all my drives to update their fw so don't worry about it. http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=1859 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patinoki Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share Posted June 13, 2007 I would definitely upgrade your firmware to 2.5b and see if that fixes the issue, at the moment your drive doesn't like those discs and a firmware upgrade could well fix it ! You can grab the fw update from here, I use www.rpc1.org for all my drives to update their fw so don't worry about it. http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=1859 Trying to figure out how to do a reply and may have made early replies. Ifcrule1972, I went to the Sony web site and when I treied to download the firmware it told me that i didn't have that drive. I am hesitant about loading a firmware when I don't have a copy of the original to go back to. The last time I did a BIOS upgrade on a desktop it totally trashed it beyond recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patinoki Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share Posted June 13, 2007 I would definitely upgrade your firmware to 2.5b and see if that fixes the issue, at the moment your drive doesn't like those discs and a firmware upgrade could well fix it ! You can grab the fw update from here, I use www.rpc1.org for all my drives to update their fw so don't worry about it. http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=1859 Trying to figure out how to do a reply and may have made early replies. Ifcrule1972, I went to the Sony web site and when I treied to download the firmware it told me that i didn't have that drive. I am hesitant about loading a firmware when I don't have a copy of the original to go back to. The last time I did a BIOS upgrade on a desktop it totally trashed it beyond recovery. Ifcrule1972, I clicked on the link that you provided and it sent me to the Sony web site when I tried to pownload the firmware. Again it told me that I had the wrong disk type. Looks like i figured out how to do the replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 That drive is probably more trouble than it's worth. You don't have a v2 drive, that's why the v2.5 firmware won't work. v1.5a is the latest available for your one. Get yourself an external drive, or just buy any old IDE drive and stick it in a USB->IDE enclosure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patinoki Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share Posted June 13, 2007 That drive is probably more trouble than it's worth. You don't have a v2 drive, that's why the v2.5 firmware won't work. v1.5a is the latest available for your one. Get yourself an external drive, or just buy any old IDE drive and stick it in a USB->IDE enclosure. Lightning UK, Thanks for your reply. I was hoping that there was a parameter that i didn't set right. Tried many options. i will have to look at an external USB drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus_McFartfinger Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Hello, Hello. I 13:14:06 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: CMC MAG. AM3) (Speeds: 1x, 2x) Regardless of what the brand name of the media is, what's important is the dye used which can be found in the media ID above. CMC media rates about 1 out of 10 as far as quality goes. They really are garbage. I see you've bought some Verbatims which are pretty much all we use here. The CMCs would be best just to be thrown into the bin and written off as a lesson learned. In the experience of everyone here they have a 99% failure rate - whether that's immediately failing to verify or failing after a week, a month or a few months. They really are *that* bad. Chuck 'em out and just use the Verbs or Taiyo Yudens if you can find them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patinoki Posted June 14, 2007 Author Share Posted June 14, 2007 Lightning UK, Today I tried to use the Verbatin DVD+R using Fedora Core 6. It failed. I went on base and purchased Verbatim DVD-R disk and used the xcdroast progam to successufully burn the DVD. I used the system hardware tool and it showed the drive with firmware version 1.5a and no drivers. I rebooted with the DVD and ran a successfull media check. I rebooted into windows and used your program and successfully made a DVD which I used to install version 7 of redhat fedra core. Looks like I don't need an external drive. Mcfartfinger, This reminds me of the old Monkees song "I'M A BELEIVER". Verbatim disk for me. Your program log follows: I 12:38:50 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started! I 12:38:50 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 12:38:50 Total Physical Memory: 521,708 KB - Available: 105,448 KB I 12:38:50 Initialising SPTI... I 12:38:50 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 12:38:50 Found 1 DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 You're still really limiting yourself by using that drive. The media is rated at 16x and your drive will only do 2x at best. The Verbatim DVD+R discs are also better than the DVD-R ones. The opposite is true for Taiyo Yuden where the DVD-R ones are better than the DVD+R ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOCOENG Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 A new high quality drive from Samsung, NEC, Lite-On, Pioneer etc shouldn't cost any more than a spindle of Verbatim discs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volvofl10 Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 with the right/decent media and a good external USB or Firewire drive you will burn discs all day at 8x , all the laptops ive had will only write at 4x max on the internal drive, but using external USB and Firewire drives i acheive 8x everytime, i dare say i could hit 10x if i bought faster media , and thats using -R taiyo's , if i went the +R route i dont know how fast i could go. but certainly above the 8x i get now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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