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Don't 'check' DMA, follow what it says and uninstall your IDE controller from within device manager. At the moment it's limiting you to 2x burn/read speeds.

Whatever you want to use. It doesn't really matter if it's DVD+ or DVD-. Just make sure you get some decent discs - Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden. As the drive you've got only supports burning at 8x, I'd suggest you get 8x media rather than newer 16x stuff that it might not support properly.

It's a DVD-ROM drive, it can't write discs.

It's probably burning the entire disc (with zeroes or something) at the 'close track' bit - as the track would have been reserved and it'll be wondering why nothing has been burnt to it. Get yourself an external drive.

Try switching the 'Write Type' in the settings (on the Write tab) to Incremental. 'Command Sequence Error' is totally bogus IMO. The 'sequence' was ok for the previous 788384 sectors, why's it suddenly wrong now?! lol Silly drive!

Ooops, my bad. I didn't notice the N. There's nothing stopping you from doing what the rest of my post said though.

All you have to do is burn the ISO file! Load it in write mode and burn it to a CDR(W). Or if you have a floppy drive, put it on a floppy disc.

Support probably is worse! It's hard to implement these things when you've nothing (including no documentation) to go on. It's far from perfect but it does work. (It'll no doubt need tweaking though)

Are you setting you application as the default one for the given file extension? i.e. for the '.iso' extension I add 'ImgBurn.Write.1' as the value of the '(default)' entry - as it's seen in regedit. Then, also under HKCR, I make a 'ImgBurn.Write.1' key and populate it with the same Shell/Command type stuff and provide a 'DefaultIcon' entry. This is what the 'Set ImgBurn As Default Application' option in the settings does, otherwise ImgBurn is just added to the context menu and nothing else is changed.

Compaq and HP are the same thing. Download the firmware I linked to and install it to update your drive. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwar...228&lang=en (slightly different version of the same page - uses 'compaq' logo) Oh and post a log when you're burning a Verbatim disc please.

Do you have a HP machine? You could try this firmware update: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/generic...=en&lang=en You might also like to consider ditching your discs and getting some better ones - Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim.

Don't forget that Microsoft made one too. Give that a go when you're done with Memtest+. You might want to enable the advanced tests though because the standard ones are done with pretty quickly. If you're running Vista it's an option in the boot menu (maybe press F8 if it doesn't appear automatically?). Failing that, just download 'windiag' from microsoft's site.

SB03 firmware is out now too. When you think it's stuck on the sync cache thing (i.e after no less than 2 mins has passed), press F8 to enable I/O debug mode and look in the log window. If you see I/O commands scrolling up/being added to it then the drive just still thinks it's busy. If you don't see anything, something has died. Check your SATA controller config and drivers. Optical drives like being on controllers set to normal/standard/ata mode rather than RAID or AHCI. Press F8 again to disable I/O debug mode (it slows things down).

It was said as a bit of a joke. You shouldn't really be in a situation where you can't trust your PC's memory. I'd concentrate more on fixing the ram issues right now than verifying discs and hold off on burning anything else until it's sorted.

Verify it 3 times! Compare any miscompare error addresses and take an average.

Yeah, I would have to say it's very unlikely that the burn and the verify would both be corrupted at exactly the same spot, therefore if the verify passes it's fair to say the disc is fine. If Verify fails once with miscompare errors and you do it again and it passes, the first was probably due to bad ram and so again it's safe to think the disc is fine. If in doubt, take the best of 3!

No it's not just a problem with verify, *anything* that ever sits in memory is subject to corruption if it's faulty - this includes data being read from a file and written to a disc. There's just no way of knowing that this corruption is taking place unless you compare it against a 'known' something (or of course if the application/computer just keeps crashing!).

They're the same function so it doesn't matter which one you use - verify after write or the standalone one. Bad ram would give you miscompare errors.

If you burn a CD Audio disc with the new version (2.4.0.0+), yes it'll be the same as a normal CD Audio disc and you'll be able to play it in the same places you can play those. (legacy cd players, PC, car stereo, dvd players) If you want a data CD containing MP3 etc, it'll be playable in whatever devices you have that can play mp3 files. (i.e. in your PC, a new car stereo, most new dvd players) Discovery mode just burns a disc full of zeroes so you can do pipo scans on it etc. (see the media and testing forum)

Build mode can either create an ISO or burn to a disc directly (without making an ISO). Just change the 'Output' as mmalves has already said.

Erm... pass. Only you know what you've done so without lots of screenshots etc it's hard to say. If it's showing LB positions, I'd say you have nothing to worry about!

You don't, they're the standard ones and are fine.

Yes I know it doesn't report the current setting, that's why I made it say what it says! There's simply no way to query the drive and find out if it's going to perform bitsetting to DVD-ROM or not. Are you sure the booktype isn't DVD-ROM on your ImgBurn burnt discs? Show me the full log of a burn + verify. You can also insert one of the burnt discs and copy + paste all the info from the panel on the right when you're in Write mode.

Ah what joy, another USB drive with the famous 'The semaphore timeout period has expired' error. You could Google that and find enough reading for the next 10 years.

The screenshot doesn't show an error. Change 'New Setting' to DVDROM and click 'Change'. If it works, it'll work automatically when you burn. Post the log of an actual burn and maybe we'll get more info.