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Your drive is reporting a type of 'Write Error' so it doesn't like something about the disc(s). Try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc.

It looks like there's some issue with the eject/load on your system. What message do you see in the status bar of the main window? There isn't a single difference in that section of code between 2.5.5.0 and 2.5.6.0 so it's not that. There's a PL03 firmware update available for your drive btw - http://www.firmwarehq.com/Lite-On/iHBS112%2B2/files.html Service Pack 1 is also available for Windows 7.

Burning that file in the way that you are (2,486,869 sectors with LB at 1,904,656), it's writing 4/5th of data on the first layer and 1/5th on the 2nd layer. When the drive is then told to finalise the disc it'll probably be writing random data to the disc in order to even out the two layers - it'll do that to improve readability. So yeah, just leave it to actually finish its job. You can't abort in the middle of a disc being finalised (same goes for the sync cache, close track/session functions), the function runs until the drive says it's finished performing the task. When you think it has finally aborted, it hasn't, it's just finished - which it would have done anyway if you'd left it the same amount of time.

It's got to be there somewhere, try again. Look (manually) in the usual places for dll files. Windows Windows\System32 Windows\System32\Drivers If you search the forums (for svrapi) you'll see this has been covered several times before.

Delete the rogue copy of svrapi.dll you've got floating around on your system somewhere - it's meant for Win 9x systems.

Move the MDS elsewhere, burn the ISO. If the disc doesn't just work, you're out of luck - as per my initial reply.

Sorry, there's no way of doing that. The best you could do is write a batch file to handle it and pass the 2 names via the command line interface.

Well I can't see any info in the log about being unable to read the disc (or hdd)... so unless you can capture the error you're seeing via a screenshot, I can't really be sure on what you're seeing. It doesn't look like the disc had a problem though. The spikes don't mean anything.

That sounds like a problem with reading the file on your hdd, not on the disc. You should run chkdsk on the hdd in question and do a full surface scan for bad sectors. There's a new firmware for your BD burner btw. http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/GGW-H20L/files.html

Your drive is just reporting a 'Write Error' when trying to burn those discs. I can't really speak for the coincidental 'always failing 1st time' issue (maybe some sort of built in 'learning' feature of the drive that's messing up?) but I'd guess your drive is always producing low quality burns on the discs and sometimes it totally fails. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

That's what your drive is limiting you to.

Yup, it's fine

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

Safe mode can't improve burn quality. The drive (and its firmware) has complete control over that (an internal process), you can't improve it by messing around with software that has nothing to do with the inner workings of the drive. You may find 2.4x is as hit and miss as 4x. Give it a go though if you want to.

Yes, you can just make an image of the 'bad' disc and reburn. If the drive can't read the disc and returns an error, revert to using the source.

The discs weren't / aren't designed or built with this type of (over)burning in mind - you're in uncharted territory. So if it works, it works and if it doesn't, it doesn't. Some drives can handle it better than others and some spindles of discs handle it better than others.

Media supported write speeds are internal to the drive and its firmware. Moving controllers/slots/channels/ports etc have nothing to do with it. If your drive randomly swaps between saying a G05 disc is supported at just 4x and 4x/8x, it's probably having trouble initialising them properly - due to bad discs or a dirty laser. I don't know how the 'source' drive is connected but the more you have going on with a controller / bus, the slower it'll be working with each individual device/program. You get buffer issues when the hardware can't keep up.

No, not really. Visit the MyCE forums, read the threads talking about/testing the different drives you have on your shortlist and pick one.

It's exactly what the DL thread says... a bad drive/firmware/media combo. You can't narrow it down more than that without actually doing something about one of the three. So do as the thread says and try the other supported speeds. Try cleaning the drive if none of them work. If it still doesn't work you're going to have to get better discs and/or buy another drive.

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

Get yourself a new drive. Yours must be ancient anyway if it can only manage 4x on those discs.

You could make ImgBurn export DVD files (plain text alternative to MDS) and use Virtual CloneDrive. DVDFab's one may also support it, I don't remember.

There isn't, no. You could probably just use the burner built into Windows if it opens a 2nd session having burnt some audio files.

Read the guides, that's what they're there for.

Post the log please - as per the pink box up the top