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If it's a Mode 1/2048 iso image you can burn it onto CD or DVD. It's the image that's bootable, not the type of media you're using.

You need to burn onto a DVD, not a CD. If you end up buying some (because you don't already have any), get Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim 8x speed ones.

Your drive doesn't like the media you're using and is just creating coasters. Get yourself some Taiyo Yuden / Verbatim 8x discs instead.

Is Vista REALLY that bad?! I can't believe they'd have made it into the initial release let alone SP1.

The buffer should be in memory, but if the system is running low then the OS could be using the pagefile more than usual I guess. The caching system is very simple, it's just X megabytes of space that the 'read' thread tries to shove data into as quickly as possible. If the buffer empties out then it means the 'read' thread can't get the image file or whatever off the hdd quickly enough.... that really is out of ImgBurn's hands.

ImgBurn won't booktype automatically on sony drives, you'll need to add its device id to the 'samsung' tab so that it knows what type of drive it is and therefore which commands to use.

Would you like me to send you a private beta so you can test it with your other software?

Original Disc - PTP PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A 1.07 (ATA) Current Profile: DVD-ROM Disc Information: Status: Complete Erasable: No Sessions: 1 Sectors: 2,763,936 Size: 5,660,540,928 bytes Time: 614:14:36 (MM:SS:FF) TOC Information: Session 1... (LBA: 0) -> Track 01 (Mode 1, LBA: 0 - 2763935) -> LeadOut (LBA: 2763936) Track Information: Session 1... -> Track 01 (LTSA: 0, TS: 2763936, LRA: 2763935) Physical Format Information (Last Recorded - L0): Book Type: DVD-ROM Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: 10.08Mbps Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 1,819,007 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 0 Physical Format Information (Last Recorded - L1): Book Type: DVD-ROM Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: 10.08Mbps Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 1,338,143 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 0 Layer Information: Layer 0 Sectors: 1,622,400 (58.7%) Layer 1 Sectors: 1,141,536 (41.3%) Mounted Image File - PTP TI2470M MPV850V 1.01 (ATAPI) Current Profile: DVD-ROM Disc Information: Status: Complete Erasable: No Sessions: 1 Sectors: 2,763,936 Size: 5,660,540,928 bytes Time: 614:14:36 (MM:SS:FF) TOC Information: Session 1... (LBA: 0) -> Track 01 (Mode 1, LBA: 0 - 2763935) -> LeadOut (LBA: 2763936) Track Information: Session 1... -> Track 01 (LTSA: 0, TS: 2763936, LRA: 0) Physical Format Information (Last Recorded - L0): Book Type: DVD-ROM Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: 10.08Mbps Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 1,819,007 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 0 Physical Format Information (Last Recorded - L1): Book Type: DVD-ROM Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: 10.08Mbps Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 1,338,143 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 0 Layer Information: Layer 0 Sectors: 1,622,400 (58.7%) Layer 1 Sectors: 1,141,536 (41.3%) Original Disc - OTP PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A 1.07 (ATA) Current Profile: DVD-ROM Disc Information: Status: Complete Erasable: No Sessions: 1 Sectors: 4,059,600 Size: 8,314,060,800 bytes Time: 902:10:00 (MM:SS:FF) TOC Information: Session 1... (LBA: 0) -> Track 01 (Mode 1, LBA: 0 - 4059599) -> LeadOut (LBA: 4059600) Track Information: Session 1... -> Track 01 (LTSA: 0, TS: 4059600, LRA: 4059599) Physical Format Information (Last Recorded - L0): Book Type: DVD-ROM Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: 10.08Mbps Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,522,287 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,255,567 Physical Format Information (Last Recorded - L1): Book Type: DVD-ROM Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: 10.08Mbps Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,522,287 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,255,567 Layer Information: Layer 0 Sectors: 2,058,960 (50.72%) Layer 1 Sectors: 2,000,640 (49.28%) Mounted Image File - OTP TI2470M MPV850V 1.01 (ATAPI) Current Profile: DVD-ROM Disc Information: Status: Complete Erasable: No Sessions: 1 Sectors: 4,059,600 Size: 8,314,060,800 bytes Time: 902:10:00 (MM:SS:FF) TOC Information: Session 1... (LBA: 0) -> Track 01 (Mode 1, LBA: 0 - 4059599) -> LeadOut (LBA: 4059600) Track Information: Session 1... -> Track 01 (LTSA: 0, TS: 4059600, LRA: 0) Physical Format Information (Last Recorded - L0): Book Type: DVD-ROM Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: 10.08Mbps Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,522,287 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,255,567 Physical Format Information (Last Recorded - L1): Book Type: DVD-ROM Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: 10.08Mbps Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,522,287 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,255,567 Layer Information: Layer 0 Sectors: 2,058,960 (50.72%) Layer 1 Sectors: 2,000,640 (49.28%) I've done the relative folder thing now - providing the images are in folders that are subfolders of the one where the mds is.

Well, 'medium not present' means that the drive thinks there's no disc in the drive. It wouldn't say that unless something had gone very wrong and the drive had reset itself or something (or you'd manually removed the media!) As soon as you get it to error out, post that complete log. I'd advise you to verify the burns too as part of the write process.

The MMC specs say that for OTP media, the physical format info for each layer is just a copy of the 1st, so I'm not seeing any reason for the 0xDDFBD0 value anywhere. On PTP media (the ones i've tried anyway), the 'First Physical Sector of Data Area' is still always 0x30000 for both of the layer descriptors. There is no way to store relative paths within the MDS in ImgBurn, it wasn't designed to support it. It's either an absolute path or just the file name - mainly because I saw no reason for the type of paths you're saying you need. I'll see about implementing it for the next release.

don't use 'start'. It should just be.... ImgBurn.exe etc etc /close ImgBurn.exe etc etc /close

It's probably all in... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

I'm sure you can look on google and find a breakdown of the bits/bytes that make up a nav pack. I don't recall ever seeing anything you would/could mark to say what type of media it's going onto. In any case, this subject would be better posted on the Adobe forums as ImgBurn is just the burner (or image builder).

Post the log, the screenshots don't really help.

Drives are about

The PX-800A appears to be a rebranded Optiarc AD-7170A. There are newer and better models out now that you can get direct from optiarc at what's probably half the price.

I'd be amazed if that PC didn't have SATA. SATA has been around for a while now.

Plextor don't make their own drives now so don't waste your time with them, buy the OEM ones instead. Have you actually looked at the IBG file yet?! It's really not that hard to do and it'll put an end to you thinking there's an issue with your drive.

Well you could rule out the OS by trying a 'live cd' (linux) of some sort. What SL discs have you tried in the drive? You said they fail too yeah? Have you looked for a bios update for your laptop? Go to the manufacturers website and check for bios and firmware updates. Have you installed everything 'Windows Update' offers you - you might need to make it show you *everything* rather than just critical updates etc.

Did it just stop at 30% again or did it error out this time? Have you tried at 4x too? You might just have to invest in a decent external usb drive and try that instead.

You can get vista SP1 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

Before the burn... After the burn... I've seen this with liteon drives a few times now but have no idea why it happens. It doesn't appear to initialise the disc properly and I bet that's part of the reason why the verify then fails. Turn off the DVD+R Reserve Track option in the settings and then try again.

That's weird because the drive there seems to be able to read it back just fine. You could try turning the 'Perform OPC Before Write' option on in the settings (write tab).

burn AND verify please.

1. Why did you put your last post in the Announcments thread?! Clearly that's not the place for it - especially when you already had this thread going. 2. The 'I 21:28:29 OPC: Yes' log entry is not the same thing as the WOPC function that your drive performs automatically during the burn (potentially lowering your average speed). WOPC cannot be toggled on/off on Pioneer drives, it's just something they do in order to adjust the laser power on the fly whilst it's burning - so you get the best burn quality it can achieve. We've asked you several times to look at the IBG data in DVDInfoPro so you can see the write speed curve but you've yet to do it. If you don't know how, just ask and we'll tell you. You can of course just upload the IBG file that ImgBurn spat out and we'll do it for you.