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Yeah but you can get some tried and tested enclosures by decent brands. Most of the cables are cheap crap from ebay.

It's not, no.

I believe there is only 1 sort of Verbatim BD-RE, not too sure about the BD-R.

Players don't care about sectors they can't read, they'll just skip them. PC drives are built for accuracy. Not only that, every drive is different. Try the disc in another PC drive and it might work.

DL's are harder to burn due to their very nature (of having 2 layers!) so if the laser isn't 100% it's quite possible that it won't burn/read them.

Who knows?! We often hear from people where their drive works one minute and not the next. I don't know why they break, sometimes they just do. You can't really expect them to last forever when you can buy them for

I guess the disc must be damaged then because the drive is certainly unable to read that sector.

Does the message in the status bar change at all when you insert the disc? i.e. when you eject the tray does it change to '.... - Tray Open' ? And having inserted the disc and close the tray, does it then change to something like 'in process of becoming ready' ? If so, it's kinda working but I expect the drive's laser has actually broken. Try the drive in another PC if possible.

That looks line an original disc and I expect the error is part of some copy protection. ImgBurn won't read copy protected media, it's not designed to.

Where do the verbatims say they're made? IF they're made in Singapore and your drive won't even produce a readable burn on those then you should try using a cleaning disc before asking for a new drive (or buying an external one yourself)

Keep to your own thread please, crossposting is annoying and doesn't help anyone.

The layer break problem on DVD Video comes from the loss of streaming when switching layers. If players don't know about the layer switch in advance (signalled via a flag in the IFO file) then they can get confused / hang when there's a loss of streaming data and timecodes get screwed up. Back in PC land, nothing cares about a slight pause when reading a file from a data disc.

It means the drive can't see the disc. ImgBurn reports the exact error/status code the drive tells it so this is not a software issue. Does it recognise any discs you put in it? (i.e. even original CDs / DVDs)

That's not you burning though, that's you trying to verify something. It would be better if we could see you trying to burn and verify something in a single session. The log shows your drive can't read the disc. Either the disc is faulty or your writer just produced a really bad burn. What make is your computer? Have you checked with whoever made it to see if there are any firmware updates for the drive?

My initial post is still true! The disc that comes with the drive is the worst one possible.

Done

That's the speed everyone here recommends 2x isn't even an option on those discs with your drive/firmware so it would have been using 4x (as that's the first one it supports). Look at the 'Supported Write Speeds' in the disc info on the right.

Log 1. Try burning at a more sensible speed. Log 2. Read the FAQ.

ImgBurn doesn't look at or use the MD5 calculations at all, they're purely cosmetic... hell I even turned off their calculation (by default) in newer versions. I think the cause of the problem lies with this... That is to say, the track (according to the TOC) spans the LBA range 0... 329183 = 329184 sectors in total. Yet upon asking the drive about the track (the 'Track Information' bit), it says the 'Track Size' is 329182 sectors. So it's misreporting the size by 2 sectors. I bet if you took 4096 bytes off the end of the proper ISO it would have the same MD5 as that reported by the 'Device'. Likewise if you added 4096 bytes to the end of the broken ISO you'd then see (via 'Comp') that the differences were in those final 2 sectors. I'm currently looking to why the difference in size wasn't flagged up somehow but it's hard when I can't find a disc / drive that will show the same issue! I'll keep you posted. EDIT: Can you please take your problem CD and try to read/view the 2 sectors it's missing off the end using the builtin sector viewer. i.e. try and read sector 329182 and 329183 Does it do that ok? If you could then attempt to read (or verify... perhaps both!) the cd again, but this time press F8 before you click the 'go' button. When that's done, save the contents of the log window to a file and upload it (rather than pasting it as plain text in your post).

Do you need it to be a cable or could you use a proper enclosure?

Not really, no. The drive had a problem writing to the media so the issue is somewhere between your drive, its firmware and the media you're using. Nothing else really comes into the equation. You could try using a cleaning disc on the drive in case the lense is a tiny bit dirty.

Where did the image with 329,182 sectors come from, you just using 'Read' mode? If so, does Read mode produce the same size image from all of your drives? Am I right in thinking that verifying as part of a burn returns correct md5 for both but verifying standalone returns a different one for the drive/device?

What do you see under the ide/atapi controller branch in device manager? How about the scsi / raid controller one? See if you can get us a screenshot with both of those branches expanded and visible. The bios option would be for the controller itself rather than a drive. Being a Dell, they might have hidden all that stuff from you. Try installing the latest chipset and matrix drivers from the intel site. http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/inf/ http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/

So it's the USB drive that's the problem then? That's what the OS knows as 'CdRom2' and Windows isn't even letting Imgburn open a 'handle' to it (probably because windows can't send I/O to it either), that's why no I/O is logged within ImgBurn after that final 'Report Key - RPC State' command directed at CdRom1. Leave the USB drive disconnected if your machine hangs when it isn't.

What files do you see in the video_ts folder? Assuming it's a proper dvd video disc there's no reason for it not to play.... EXCEPT.. if the player can't read your disc or it doesn't support something about the files. Not all players will support mpa audio (and I know this from experience) or whatever pinnacle studio seems to default to using for the audio encoding. Dolby digital 2.0 is a much better choice.