Hi Guys, I have a Liteon iHBS112-29 Burner, which I've been using for the past 1.5 years, during which time I've burnt tons of Bluray media .... During this time I rarely ever got a 'Power Calibration Area Error' .. its frequency only increased slightly in about the last 1-2 months (maybe 1 in 8-10 blurays burnt) ... However recently, like in the past 1-2 weeks, its frequency has increased more .. like 1 in 5 maybe ... And today, I burnt the same ISO two, and BOTH times the verification after burn failed at the point where the burner switches between the layers (read verification errors always occur at this point, whenever they do) ...
Recently, I've also noticed that in the start of the burn, when trying to write 'Lead-In', the write fails for 1-3 times, after which it works and the burn continues ... After the burn, some pass the verification and some done ... Here is a sample of this:
I've always been using Verbatim BD-50 discs which I import from Japan .. They've never really disappointed me, so I don't think its a media issue ... However, having said this, the majority of my burns in the last 1-2 days have used discs from a 50-pack I recently imported, so there might be a slight chance that the 50 pack media is faulty ? I highly doubt this though, as I've burnt 150+ of these Blurays in the past 1.5 years, and never really had any major problem ..
Unfortunately I don't have any other media or other Bluray burner to test anything on at this point ..
So what can be concluded from this ? Is my drive dying ? If so, can it be cleaned ?