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It's a strange problem indeed as I have burnt the same media for over a year without any issues. The only thing I can think of is that the manufacturer changed part of the process despite having the same media code. Thanks for the help.

Cynthia, Thanks for the reply. I'm in the computer industry and that was one of first thing that I checked that I had the latest. To answer your question, it is a Dell. The latest available firmware is 103D from Dell's website. Any other ideas why subsequent burns would work?

Thanks for the suggestions, but can anyone come up with the reason why subsequent burns always work using Ricoh media (even though the first one is a coaster)? This is a repeatable process. I have zero failures with the subsequent writes. Does ImgBurn somehow recalibrate the laser power for the subsequent burns?

I have a similar issue, so I won't start another thread as the advices might help both of us. I have been using the following drive for over a year for DL burn w/ no problems. I bought a new batch of media of the same media type (number matches), and the DL burn would fail the first attempt at the second layer after a power on. However, when I retry a 2nd time the burn would work without changing any configuration. This was repeatable several times. Having tired of wasting a DL disc per DVD image, I decided to try the following -- burn 1st image twice (as the first burn is always a coaster, the 2nd burn is successful), then burn a 3rd DL disc for the 2nd image, which proved to be successful as well. This shows that a failed burn is required for power calibration. At first I thought this might has been a media issue, but now I don't think so. I looked at the logfile for anything that might differ between burn 1 & 2, but I didn't see anything different. I have pasted the log below. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- initial burn, always a failure -- I 21:45:01 ImgBurn Version 2.4.1.0 started! I 21:45:01 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 21:45:01 Total Physical Memory: 523,672 KB - Available: 285,008 KB I 21:45:01 Initialising SPTI... I 21:45:01 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 21:45:01 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD