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The key point I picked out from the OPs question was 'with menus'. Unless your player treats the disc as a data disc and then treats you selecting the VIDEO_TS.IFO file or something from a specific folder as a standalone DVD Video disc, there's no way it'll work and display the proper menus for that specific VIDEO_TS folder.

Use something like hdtune to do a benchmark / read test over the entire drive and post up a graph from that. Make sure the benchmark test is configured to do a full test in the settings.

I can only assume it's degraded and either recreating the missing data from parity or it's in the process of rebuilding parity and that's why it's slow. What does the rocketraid software say is going on?

No.

Everything's inner to outer.

CPU-Z should do the trick.

Mount your image in a virtual drive program and check it plays in media player. You can buy a new burner for about £15.

Does it play on the PC itself? You could try burning at 16x or 24x instead of MAX. Invest in some Taiyo Yuden CDs too, they're the best. Give the drive a clean with a cleaning disc, it's very old now (or get a new one).

Go for the firmware update. Those jvc discs are probably the cheaper LTH ones too. They aren't as good as the normal HTL ones.

Boot into safe mode.... same issue? Which mode is your sata controller in? Ata / ahci / raid etc Which chipset does your motherboard use? Just make sure it's not the one that had the bug and required the B3 update.

That's why I said to try a few more discs and power cycling the drive. Sometimes these things just fix themselves.

Yes, just mount your ISO and point build mode at the root of the virtual drive - ie E:

Basic input mode or advanced input mode? If advanced, drag and dropping from explorer itself or the explorer pane of the DLE window?

If anything, it should be doing the complete opposite to what you're telling me. The drives were tested for overburning MKM-001-00 and MKM-003-00 media. Anything else they manage to overburn successfully is a bonus. If the overburning side of things isn't kicking in with the discs that feature has been verified to work with, something is wrong somewhere.

Your drive isn't working properly. It should report the larger size without you doing anything. Try a few more discs and power cycling the drive. If it still doesn't work, you'll probably have to send it back.

It's all about the layer break here db and that won't do anything with it either.

No, DT wouldn't have mounted the ISO correctly without the MDS either, it's probably just halved the image size and called that the layer break position... which is then what ImgBurn would have recorded in your new MDS file. You'd be better off building a new image using the 'create image file from files/folders' option and pointing it at the virtual drive.

ok, stop using other programs that are also trying to use it, defrag it, check DMA is enabled and working correctly (do a speed test on it using hdtune or similar).

If you've reset the settings like I said, you won't be getting a 'logical block address out of range' error. Post a new log please.

Correct, resetting the settings to their default values will fix the issue you're having.

Ok, so which drive were the files you were burning there coming from? It or the system as a whole was too busy to maintain a steady write speed.

Post the log as it stands at that point please and maybe grab a screenshot too. I've done hundreds of audio CDs and never had an issue with it myself.

Where are your source files located? Wherever they're stored seems really slow as you're running into lots of buffering issues.

Like I said, reset the settings to their default values.

You've messed around with the settings and have stopped the program from working correctly. Reset them back to defaults. Your discs may cause you problems btw. You should be using MKM-003-00 ones.