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What are you hoping DAO would give you? It doesn't actually exist as a write type, it's SAO, PACKET, TAO and RAW. M-Discs are burnt the same way as normal discs, it's the hardware that has to support them.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

What drive do you actually have? You've connected it to a controller running dodgy drivers that mess with the device identifier. Either get it off that controller or install some updated drivers that don't mess with it. The 'SATA' part of 'SATA HL-DT-ST......' should NOT be there. It may be that you have this drive - 'GGW-H20L', in which case, there's a much newer firmware available for it. That may fix the issue burning those discs. http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/GGW-H20L/files.html

Standard and Advanced input modes are 2 totally different things. Adding files / folders to one mode doesn't mean it's then visible in the other. There's stuff you can do in Advanced mode that simply cannot be done / represented in Standard. Now on to the conflicting files issue... you must be adding file from 2 folders that are ending up in the same folder on the disc. i.e. if you drag 'c:\folder 1\file 1.txt' and 'c:\folder 2\file 1.text' over to the Source box in Standard input mode, both of those files will end up in the root folder of the disc - which of course can't happen as they have the same name. The 'Preserve Full Pathnames' option will get around that by recreating the *entire* folder structure of those files on the disc. You could also just add folders to the source box rather than files, that's easier to manage and is really what that (basic) standard mode is for. Advanced input mode makes it easier to see where things will end up on the disc.

I've never heard of AFA so I don't know the dye / MID the discs actually use. Of course just being expensive doesn't make them any good. They may use a cheap dye and just have an over inflated price label stuck on them. Try them in some other drives if possible and see if any of those can initialise them. If one can, please post up all of the disc info from the box on the right when you're in Write mode.

Burn at 4x, not 8x.

Your drive isn't in the 'Ready' state. Notice the message in the status bar at the bottom of the main window. You'll have to try with some different discs.

The log shows no error. Try and capture what's going wrong.

You can't format it to use like a USB stick (where you can drag and drop files) but you can erase/format it to clear everything off it.

Post the log please.

That's actually a straight dump of what the drive is returning. It could handle the drive returning 0xFFFFFF00 for the read speed a little better, but that doesn't make it a bug. Btw, your topic subscriptions / notifications are bouncing back because your email address is no longer valid.

Can't you use your other drive? That one seems really old and doesn't appear to be compliant with the mmc command set.

See if you can install some more recent intel rapid storage technology drivers on your machine. Maybe v10.x will work? The read errors seem to be just from where your drive can't read the disc.

If you already have an ISO, you burn it in 'write' mode. There are no settings like that to mess with. If you're burning a bunch of random files/folders and want those iso9660 settings within 'Build' mode, click the 1999 button on the advanced - restrictions - iso9660 tab.

What is the message in the status bar when it's stuck (and with debug mode enabled) ? Try booting into safe mode and see if it does the same thing.

Yes, they work the same as normal discs.

The disc is unreadable. If you've only just burnt it, buy better discs.

If you have the ISO, why aren't you just burning that in 'write' mode? The issue on your system appears to be with reading from your E: drive. Which program are you using to 'mount' the image? For some reason, it's making some files unreadable.

The log would be nice.

You're trying to burn more on the disc than will actually fit - that's not going to work. The larger images need specific burners and media. Go and read an Xbox forum.

So what's on your screen exactly once you've loaded it?

I'm afraid I need more info in order to diagnose this problem Please read the FAQ, there's a post that tells you what to do when you encounter this specific issue.

It can supply 900mA according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0 So that's 400mA more than USB 2.0 I believe. It may or may not be enough to power some hdds. Most enclosures seem to come with a 2 amp PSU though so I doubt it'll work for anything other than a smaller sized 'portable' hdd.

That isn't 'burning' and isn't something ImgBurn can do.

CD-TEXT isn't readable/writable in the same way that typical data ('user data') on the disc is read/written, maybe that's why the duplicated discs don't contain it? As you say, all you can do is burn a disc containing CD-TEXT info and give it to them. Either the duplicate copies have it or they don't. You can't do anything about the process they use for making the duplicates.