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Ah yes, oops. There's actually code in there to stop it from auto calculating. I'm sure I put it there for a good reason at the time, so I'll leave it where it is. btw, your forum email address is dead. I keep getting 'mail delivery failed' reports for the subscription emails the board is trying to send you.

If you like auto calculate, why not just enable the checkbox in the GUI?

I'd have expected it to be caching/buffering in memory (non swap file regions only), not anywhere else. Your SSD should be quite safe. Did you reinstall when you put the SSD in? If it worked ok before with 3, maybe you had already enabled that option? It could also be something with the drivers you're now running. Don't forget that the speed of drives trails right off as they fill up (as seen in your screenshot), so make sure you defrag the drive to ensure all the data is as close to the start of the drive as possible.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=12200

Well, you wouldn't normally want the OS to buffer/cache a 4, 8. 25 or 50GB file as you burn it to disc. It zaps the machine of resources that are better used elsewhere. Not only that, as you're typically only reading it once from start to end, it's fairly pointless. So for that reason, it's disabled by default. The option basically controls whether or not the program sets the 'FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING' flag when calling the 'CreateFile' Windows API function (which it does to open files for reading/writing).

That's due to bad file association on your system. It's a normal ISO. ISO has once upon a time been associated with WinRAR, but then VLC has taken over but you've got some WinRAR leftovers (i.e. the file type description)

It already can.

I guess you have to assume your hdd can't cope with the 3 simultaneous transfers. Is it quick in its own right? Do a transfer rate test in HD Tune Pro or something. See what happens if you enable the 'Reading - Always Use Buffered I/O' option on the I/O tab in the Settings and try to burn another 3 images/discs in Write mode with 'Test Mode' enabled.

Keep Googling, you have access to exactly the same info I do.

Why are you quoting yourself and including things you've never said before in the quote? Forums aren't that hard to use, just get to grips with how the BB code tags work. Stuff between the 'quote' and '/quote' tags goes into the grey quote block.

Ok well what I'd probably do to start with is use Discovery mode and burn in test mode so as to not waste any DVD-R. If it manages to burn those ok (without the buffers dropping and buffer recovery cutting in), burning to 3 drives at a time is fine and the problem lies with reading 3 image files off your hdd at the same time.

The BDXL discs are stupidly expensive... so personally, I wouldn't bother. You ask too many questions that you could find answers to yourself by using Google. Don't be so lazy. and I told you before about editing posts to combine sequential questions / answers. Use the 'Edit' button. There should be no reason for you to have 2 posts in a row like #31 and #32

The 207M *is* the new model.

Look at the disc info in the box on the right of the screen. In there you should see a line starting with 'Formatted:'. i.e. If what follows that isn't a 'Yes', ImgBurn will try to format the disc properly so that it does say 'Yes'. There should be no need to erase/format a disc again once it says 'Yes', ImgBurn will overwrite what's on it over and over again without a problem. If some other application burns to the disc and messes up the format, it may change back from 'Yes' to something else - and I expect that's where your problem is coming from.

To me, they look like 2 totally different discs. There's no way to change that info in the first place, let alone change it back.

Google the drive model and see what the manufacturer says? I think they pretty much all do though. Oh and the drives/media forums aren't for asking questions in

I said I've never seen a drive that couldn't write BD-RE but could write BD-R.

I don't really follow the external drive market, sorry. If I had to buy one, I wouldn't! Instead, I'd get a generic 5.25" USB 2.0/eSATA (or just USB 3.0) enclosure and stick a standard half height drive in it.

Yes, of course.

I've never seen one that couldn't also write to BD-RE, no. Yes, BD-ROM drives can (well, normally they can anyway) read burnt discs. If you thnk about it, every standlone Blu-ray player / PS3 has a BD-ROM drive in it.

No, it's because it can emulate a BD-ROM drive. A BD-ROM drive is one that can read BD (and CD/DVD) discs but can't write to them. Just as a DVD-ROM drive is one that can read DVD (and CD) discs but can't write to them.

That's *exactly* the same LBA it failed at last time (well, in your first log). Unless the whole spindle/batch has a defect in that position, it's probably your drive that's at fault.

No, nobody has a clue. I buy my discs online

I've no idea why they went from RW to RE with Blu-ray. Yes, RW and RE are both the rewritable versions of the discs for their respective formats.

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