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Personally I'd have gone for Verbatim UltraSpeed CD-RW's, that's what I use. Drive wise, go for one of the new Optiarc models or something. You're probably better off visiting the cdfreaks.com forums and seeing what people have to say about the various new models from different manufacturers.

So if it's just the DL discs that don't work, go with swapping your Ricoh discs for some better quality Verbatim ones.

It might also help if you can tell us exactly what's changed (if anything) since you last burnt without any errors. i.e. you got a new burner, opened a new pack of discs, updated some drivers, updated the drives firmware. All those things are important when trying to troubleshoot. Of course the first thing anyone on this forum will tell you is that you're playing Russian roulette by using anything other than Verbatim DVD+R DL 2.4x (MKM-001-00) discs. That drive also only appears to support 4x, 6x and 8x on that media so setting the write speed to 2.4x isn't going to do anything, it'll still burn at 4x (as that's the slowest it supports). You could try the faster speeds, they might actually be better.

The ISO file is a container file and within it you should find the video_ts folder and all the other stuff. Burn the ISO in Write mode and then look at the disc in explorer / my computer...what do you see?

Post the entire log please.

Post the whole log please and make sure it's from v2.4.1.0

open the case and move the cable What drivers did you download / install? What motherboard do you have? (if you know)

So it's part of the indexing service really, doesn't sound that important to me?! Maybe you can use this info to disable it for your optical drives - you might need a disc in the drive first? http://nzpcmad.blogspot.com/2007/01/window...hard-drive.html There should certainly not be a 5 minute wait. The program retries the lock 5 times before erroring out, with a 1 second pause between each. If it's taking significantly longer than that then the OS is holding onto the function call for a LOT longer than it should do. Maybe it tries to ask the programs to let go of the handle and they're just not playing nicely - so the OS has control for 1 minute per request or something (which ImgBurn doesn't know about). I've never seen it take anything more than 5 - 10 seconds to bring up the error box or I might have already done something about it (i.e. not performed so many retries!)

That means you have the drive connected to a controller with bad drivers that don't support optical drives. Try and find an update for them or more the drive to a different controller.

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.