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Read mode is all about creating ISO images - that's it's sole purpose in life. If you're NOT getting an ISO, it's probably because you're making the image on a drive using the FAT/FAT32 filesystem - whereby the image must be split into 4GB sections or the computer blows up (kidding). The MDS is then used to join (virtually) the two back together (in software that supports MDS files). For people using NTFS for the file system on their hard drive, the program will create an ISO and then an MDS if it thinks it needs to (i.e. for double layer discs where the layer break position is then stored in the MDS).

It just burns lots of zeroes to the media. We use it for all the drive / disc tests in the 'drives and media' forum. You can tell it to burn then entire disc without having the hassle of building an iso of that exact size. You can then see the read/write rates on the media and follow them up with a PIPO scan in DVDInfoPro or CDSpeed. This enables you to see how well your drive can burn them - and of course vary the write speeds to see if that makes a difference.

Sorry, what exactly is the problem? Is the burner not listed in the drop down box when you're in Write mode? Copy + paste everything out of the log window when you first start ImgBurn.

It's no different, it's just a standalone version. Discovery mode is used for testing drives / media and not something you'd use everyday (unless you're me / one of the beta team )

Might I suggest 'Mounting' the ISO's as virtual drives if you don't want to burn them and extracting that way? You just need DAEMON Tools. That way, the OS is still doing all the file system parsing.

Unless it's something I've fixed since 2.3.2.0, it's working fine for me.

Never gonna happen, sorry.

You must have a very 'special' 360 then if it likes everything EXCEPT the one decent type/brand of double layer media! Looks as though you've got yourself a bit of a catch 22 situation.

Ok, firstly the Guides section of this forum covers what the 'AUTO' speed is. It's not Auto in the sense that you think it is, YOU need to configure it first or all your discs / drives will burn at full speed - and that's NOT a good thing. You got a power calibration error at the start of that burn - that's not good either! Without seeing the complete log I can only assume you're using cheapo media. Get yourself some Verbatim (MCC dye) or Taiyo Yuden discs and then try burning with those instead.

It lists every cell that has any chance of being aligned so L0 >= L1 (size wise) and where the Start LBA of that Cell is a multiple of 16 (ECC Sector Boundary). The rating is only for the cell as it currently stands, based on a certain set of rules. i.e. going by that exact screenshot, if one of the entries had SPLIP = No, it would get a 'Good' flag as it's more likely to already a decent place of the LB to go. Unless you tell ImgBurn otherwise, the Cell you select WILL have it's 'SPLIP' value changed to 'No' - as typically that's how layer breaks are done. You can't just randomly insert a layerbreak wherever you like, as mentioned above, at the very least the split has to be where L0 >= L1. As you can see from your screenshot, all the cells from 5 through 8 have been listed. Try and get to any before that and L1 would become bigger than L0. Try and get any after that and L0 is too big to go on the disc. The only way to get more options is to physically insert more cells or to shrink the source files a bit more so there's extra 'spare room' to move around it. Both of those require 3rd party tools.

If you just want to copy an unprotected disc, simply use Read mode to create an ISO of it on your hdd and then use Write mode to burn that ISO to a new disc.

Maybe you don't have a writer then?

The 'supported write speeds' text means nothing to the program really, it's purely cosmetic. Even if the 2.4x speed isn't mentioned there, you could still set it to 2.4x and IF the drive really did support it, it would burn at it. I do not limit (in any way, shape or form) the speed you can select and hence what the program will instruct the drive to burn at. By that I mean you can tell it to burn at 48x for all I care, the program will send the appropriate speed to the drive and the drive can either use it or ignore it (which of course it would if you chose 48x!) and select the next best (closest) speed automatically.

Smart people swear by it, stupid people swear at it. It's pretty clear which direction you're heading. Don't ever bitch about something because YOU don't understand it. It only makes you look daft and people WILL laugh at you. The software you use has almost nothing to do with the burn being successful or not - it all comes down to your choice of drive/firmware/media. All the software does is send the data to the drive.

Yup same place. Mine were $41 for 2 packs, so yeah about £5 a disc! I was lucky in that I only had to wait 5 days from ordering until they'd shipped them

donta, I got a couple of packs from them (2 in a pack). Delivery was pretty quick actually

This one if from a Verbatim 5x disc. I 15:40:04 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.12 Beta started! I 15:40:04 Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (5.2, Build 3790 : Service Pack 2) I 15:40:04 Total Physical Memory: 3,406,220 KB - Available: 1,858,972 KB I 15:40:04 Initialising SPTI... I 15:40:04 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 15:40:06 Found 4 DVD-ROMs, 1 DVD±RW, 5 DVD±RW/RAMs and 1 HD DVD-ROM! I 15:40:37 Operation Started! I 15:40:37 Device: [5:1:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112 1.22 (P:) (SCSI) I 15:40:37 Media Type: DVD-RAM (Disc ID: Matsushita Electric Industrial CO.,LTD. M01J5006) (Speeds: 2x, 3x, 5x) I 15:40:37 Quick Erase: No I 15:40:37 Erasing Disc... I 16:09:10 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:28:33 Notice it's still using Matsushita (Panasonic) dye.

That first log was from some 12x DVDRAM made by Maxell. You can only get them from Japan I think (I imported mine). This log is from some Panasonic 3x discs. I 14:39:34 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.12 Beta started! I 14:39:34 Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (5.2, Build 3790 : Service Pack 2) I 14:39:34 Total Physical Memory: 3,406,220 KB - Available: 1,866,804 KB I 14:39:35 Initialising SPTI... I 14:39:35 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 14:39:36 Found 4 DVD-ROMs, 1 DVD±RW, 5 DVD±RW/RAMs and 1 HD DVD-ROM! I 14:39:51 Operation Started! I 14:39:51 Device: [5:1:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112 1.22 (P:) (SCSI) I 14:39:51 Media Type: DVD-RAM (Disc ID: Matsushita Electric Industrial CO.,LTD. M01J3003) (Speeds: 2x, 3x) I 14:39:51 Quick Erase: No I 14:39:51 Erasing Disc... I 15:36:18 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:56:27 Just remember when you buy media that it's the Disc ID that's important, not the brand name.

We can't help you with these types of questions I'm afraid. If you have an issue specific to the burning stage (when using ImgBurn of course!), feel free to pop back.

Ok so hopefully you know now that you can't do that. You divide by 1024 to go from Bytes to KB, not 1000.

The next one can read / write multisession/track images. Hopefully it'll be released soon

It certainly sounds odd that an 8GB file would gain 200mb just buy putting a file system around it. Are you sure you're correct with your figures there? The info summary box that pops up before the build/burn starts tells you exactly how big all the files are and then how big the image will be. Remember not to confuse KB units with BYTES. KB might be 8,3xx,xxx but BYTES would be correct at 8,5xx,xxx,xxx (or even bigger, I've not actually worked it out). ISO9660/Joliet have a filesize limit of 4GB so if you are using files larger than that you'll have to stick with just using UDF.

No, it doesn't work in the current version. Only single session/track discs are supported.

Please remember this is the ImgBurn Support Forum. If it's not to do with ImgBurn, I really don't see why I should waste my time answering such questions when you can find answers via Google in a couple of clicks.

I 22:29:23 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.12 Beta started! I 22:29:23 Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (5.2, Build 3790 : Service Pack 2) I 22:29:23 Total Physical Memory: 3,406,220 KB - Available: 1,939,384 KB I 22:29:24 Initialising SPTI... I 22:29:24 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 22:29:27 Found 4 DVD-ROMs, 1 DVD±RW, 5 DVD±RW/RAMs and 1 HD DVD-ROM! I 22:30:05 Operation Started! I 22:30:05 Device: [5:1:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112 1.22 (P:) (SCSI) I 22:30:05 Media Type: DVD-RAM (Disc ID: MXL22) (Speeds: 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x) I 22:30:05 Quick Erase: No I 22:30:05 Erasing Disc... I 22:54:51 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:24:46 There, see