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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

That's 'CD Extra'. It is possible but far from easy so you're better off using something else for the job.

The correct layerbreak position is read from the .DVD file. You haven't ever needed to set ImgBurn to any value manually.

Please post the log - as per the pink box up the top

Refer to the following line in the log... W 11:54:23 The drive only supports writing these discs at 2.4x. It doesn't matter what you try and set the speed to, the drive will only ever burn at 2.4x.

Put the original disc back in the drive, switch to read mode and copy + paste the disc info from the box on the right of the main window please.

Forget Patin-Couffin, it's not going to fix anything. Go back to SPTI. If that was your first failure, just ignore it and try again. Your drive shouldn't be having a problem burning to those discs. If it keeps happening, try getting the MKM-003-00 discs instead (Verbatim 8x). If it fails to burn those too, your drive is faulty.

ImgBurn is more of a power tool than an easy tool. If you're used to Burning Studio and it's working ok for you, just stick with it. 1. Use the write files/folders to disc option. You might prefer Advanced input mode (menu at the top). The file system should probably be set to ISO9660+Joliet. 2. ImgBurn doesn't convert files so if you burn AVI files you'll end up with AVI files on the disc. Beyond that, it's the same process as above.

Post the whole log please. If you used ImgBurn to read the original, post the log from that session too. You might just find it's not possible to make an exact copy though - in which case the backup may never work.

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

Using eSATA would do away with the semaphore timeout issue, yes.

I had the most consistent burns with OPC off and burning at 4x. The best eeprom settings for me were: Advanced Settings - Force HT: Yes, Online HT: No, OverSpeed: No, SmartBurn: Yes All of this can be seen in the iHAS124 thread in the Drives forum.

Correct.

They're essentially the same thing. The MDS is a little info file and ImgBurn will pull the data in from the ISO automatically. You could live without the MDS but don't delete the ISO

Unless you're just talking about burning AVI files as a data disc, no. You can only have one DVD/BD Video on a disc. You could, I guess, reauthor a totally new disc with a 3rd party tool and add a menu to pick between the various movies - but that's nothing to do with ImgBurn and not something I've ever done/could help you with.

ImgBurn burns as-is. So if you're burning AVI files, you end up with AVI files on the disc. If your player doesn't support AVI files then obviously the disc won't play. If you want a proper DVD Video disc then you'll have to use another program to do that conversion (DVD Flick, ConvertXtoDVD etc) and then burn the output (a VIDEO_TS folder) with ImgBurn.

What you're burning should make no difference, something about your enclosure / USB chipset combo just isn't working nicely together and it's timing out the commands long before they're supposed to time out. Put service pack 1 on for Windows 7, that may help.

Your drive can't burn DVDs, it can only read them.

Please post the log - as per the pink box up the top