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No, the drive controls burn quality itself. Are you using Verbatim MKM-001-00 media as I suggested in an earlier post? That's probably the most important piece of advice I can give you.

Good call, I was just about to suggest the same thing

Why don't you update your PS3 firmware? I thought it was on 2.43 now or something.

First I check that I don't still have a copy of ImgBurn (or any other burning tool I happen to be testing with) open, then I check there's no disc in the drive, then I run the flash program. I've never shut down my AV or closed 'normal' programs like Internet Explorer etc.

Right so it's definitely NVIDIA then! Do you happen to know which motherboard you have at all? Or rather, which NVIDIA chipset it uses? I really can't believe that NVIDIA release drivers that are sooooo bad, they totally screw with the sense data from drives - how do they expect programs to work properly if the info isn't accurate?!

You want Taiyo Yuden CD's and Taiyo Yuden/Verbatim DVDs. If your discs won't read then they're either dirty/scratched or they're protected. Clean them and if they still don't work, give up because ImgBurn won't get around any protection on the disc.

Yeah your drivers are messing stuff up. All of the 'SENSE' stuff is complete rubbish. Bring up Device Manager, expand the IDE Controller and SCSI / RAID Controller branches and tell me (or show me via a screenshot) exactly what you see. Device manager can be found by right clicking 'My Computer' -> 'Properties' -> 'Hardware' tab -> 'Device Manager'.

open imgburn and make sure the log window is visible (enable it via the 'View' menu if it's not). Now press F8 to enable I/O debug mode. Wait a couple of seconds and press F8 again. Now select all the entries in the log window (CTRL+A) and copy them (CTRL+C). Now paste (CTRL+V) them into a reply here on the forum.

It's probably your drivers. 'No Additional Sense Information' seems to get returned when the drive is on an nvidia controller using their drivers. As for why it's 'not ready', well it could just be that you've not got a disc in it.

That would be cd-extra. It is technically possible but it's not easy.

The forced OPC function is disabled by default in 2.4.2.0 (yours is still enabled because you upgraded) so that would get rid of that exact error... trouble is, the drive may still do some sort of OPC itself when the burn starts and it may still return the 'Power Calibration Area Error' error code as a result. You can't avoid that because it's totally down to the drive / firmware / media combo.

Lower speed generally equals lower jitter and lower jitter is a good thing. If the drive suffers from a buffer underrun then it'll insert link blocks before it starts writing again and obviously it's better not to have those. As for actually turning burnproof off... well I see no point in that if it's not being used anyway. CD burning is so slow I can't imagine you'd get into buffer troubles anyway.

The OS says something else is using the file and has locked it - meaning ImgBurn can't open it. Close whatever program down that's using it and try again.

There is no solution. Windows either lets ImgBurn lock the drive or it doesn't - and it doesn't when something else is using it. I've no way of finding out what that *something* is (beyond what you've already done) and so all you can do is ignore the warning or tell ImgBurn not to bother locking the drive at all (which is what you seem to have gone for).

Time for a new drive me thinks. Seeing as how they're only

Stop the imapi service or whatever it's called.

I'm sure you're quite capable of slowing your own burn speed down if you know your system can't cope with 16x burning or whatever. Obviously it's better to avoid buffer recovery kicking in so either slow the burn speed down or increase the buffer size - assuming it can at some point keep up? If it can't you must be running it on a pretty slow system. 22mb/s is about enough for a 16x burn and a hdd should easily be able to do that.

Enough of the CAPS already! You're burning shit media at top speed. You were lucky it ever worked. As we keep telling everyone, stop buying the cheapo DL discs and invest in the decent stuff - Verbatim DVD+R DL 2.4x (MKM-001-00 dye, Made in Singapore).

ImgBurn is not a hdd backup tool. If you want disc spanning then you need to buy/find a program that supports it, ImgBurn does not. btw, why are you dragging files and not just folders? and you know you don't have to do them one at a time yeah?

You'd have to ask plextor that one

Put one of the DL discs you've just burnt back in the drive and copy + paste everything from the disc info panel on the right.

Have you looked at the non temp one?! Seriously, you pretty much need to have hacked firmware to use the temp one. NEC don't enable them by default, only the 3rd party people like buffalo do. If the 'Drive (For DVD+R DL Media)' option is set to DVD-ROM then you've nothing to worry about. Your disc WILL have the DVD-ROM booktype. If there's a problem playing them then it's probably down to the media you're using and the quality of the burn achieved by your drive/firmware.

partition the drive and stick yellowdog linux in the 10gb partition, then load that up and see if it can read the discs.

They're just different roads to the same destination, it doesn't matter which one you take. That said, I use SPTI all the time so that's the one that gets all the testing.

Yeah it means the drive doesn't support the command. That's to be expected, only certain drives with certain firmware support the entire set of booktype commands. So ignore the temporary one and look at the 'Drive (For DVD+R DL Media)' one instead. Make that say DVD-ROM and the drive will remember it forever. Oh and just because your bothers laptop works with the discs it doesn't mean yours will. We ONLY recommend Verbatim DVD+R DL discs here for DL burning.