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Yes. Tools -> Settings -> General -> Page 1 -> Display Warnings -> Underburning

The first 2 lines of that post were just me being sarcastic I've never done any assembler stuff at all.

You should preview each one of them and see where you'd notice a short pause (as the drive refocuses the laser between layers) the least.

You wouldn't use ImgBurn for that job. Floppy image files aren't the same as optical disc image files.

I'm not really sure why you're asking me this... I have nothing to do with patching firmware. Sorry!

You really should read the info they've posted about it all I've done minimal testing on the firmware tweaks c4e made (to check it didn't kill anyhing for general usage) and burnt MKM-003-00 fine at 4x.

Everything I've read about this stuff tells you to use Verbatim discs. The cheap ones are very hit and miss.

If not reading any discs at all or is reading all discs except those... yes. The alternative is to buy some DL discs it supports - probably 2.4x Verbatim ones with the MKM-001-00 MID/dye.

Whilst I appreciate the effort on your part, I think these drives are probably too old for anyone to really care about! People that lived and died by the BenQ's will have probably retired them in the switch to SATA... I know I did!

You are putting them in your LiteOn drive yeah?! It's old now and might not (probably won't) support the MID/dyes used on modern media.

Burning is burning, it can't be taking twice as long unless you're burning at half the speed!

There's a link in the pink box up the top.

Disc image files (*.iso, *.img, *.bin etc) are not the same as picture image files (*.png, *.jpg, *.gif etc)

As you can see from here... http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=18871&st=0&p=136024entry136024 ... you should not be having problems burning MKM-003-00 with that drive. So yeah, just try another disc as that one may have been faulty. It might be worth scanning (pipo scan / disc quality test) the disc in opti drive control / dvdinfopro to see what the error rates are like on it - then compare it to how my scans look in that thread.

Show us a log of you burning+verifying some decent Verbatim / Taiyo Yuden media at 8x. If they don't work either, get the drive swapped out for another one. It should not be having problems burning to the best media available.

It's related to your burner. ImgBurn tries to change the booktype of + format discs to DVD-ROM but your drive doesn't appear to support the normal commands LG drives would use. You can just ignore the message in the log.

I meant the ImgBurn buffer. It's got stuff queued up for writing the hdd but just isn't able to.

The only way you'll do it with a different burner is if that 'c4e' bloke (or someone else with his skills/motivation) mods the firmware for the model in question.

It looks like there's a problem writing to your Z: drive - the buffers are full. Sorry, it's impossible for me to tell you why it's happening. Is there no newer version of Wine available for the Mac? They're up to 1.3.30 now at WineHQ.

Just post the log (from the log window) as it stands anyway please and also a screenshot as it'll probably help.

If you're going to buy a new drive, surely you'd get the most recent model? Here in the UK that's the GH24NS70. edit: oops sorry, I guess you need an IDE drive

Yes, that's the one.

This is nothing to do with ImgBurn. The drive has complete control over the supported speeds. If it says only 4x - 8x are supported then only 4x - 8x are supported - regardless of what some other program may or may be telling you.

It's an option when Windows first starts. Press the F8 key the second windows starts to load and you should get a menu with Safe Mode as an option on it. I wouldn't buy a prebuilt external drive, just a generic 5.25" usb/esata enclosure and then a decent normal sized drive. I'm a more of a desktop (well, full tower!) pc guy myself (although laptops have their place), but it depends on what you want to spend your money on!

I really don't know. It just looks hit and miss because you're overburning discs that simply weren't ever designed for such a thing. Success/failure of a burn should be 100% down to the drive/firmware/media combo being used.