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Sorry, thought you mentioned those options more like features that might in some (general) cases help.. "DVD+R Reserve Track" seems to actually have worked(!), although I did accidently leave burning speed to "auto" (meaning 12x while sony d11 is 8x rated, at least as far as I know). At least with "reserve track" option and 12x seems to be working fine, the disc is playing without a hitch in my standalone player and no errors were logged by imgburner. Actually the first (good) disc was also done in 12x, but I did also get several coasters @12x (as well as finalize retries), so burning speed is at least not the only cause/solution. ISO9660 is used primarily since the specs for what discs that will play is very very vaguely described in the manual for my standalone player (samsung dvd-p245), but ISO9660 was one of the specs I found and since i successfully used that format for at least one disc I've kept using that format, the filename restriction isn't really that big of a deal to me since I'm keeping all of the material on my fileserver anyways. Will do some scans and more tests tomorrow after work, but thanks for all your help so far!

Don't have any other dvdr's unfortunately (I didn't use dvd's much previously, since my computer used to be next to the tv), got some cdr's but that's about it Anyways, after a bit of regedit hacking I managed to get cdspeed allowing me to run the disc quality test (see http://club.cdfreaks.com/f96/cdspeed-4-7-7...onflict-236004/ ) Unfortunately, cdspeed didn't even detect the spike (even after I set the end position after the end of the disc image) It is however showing similiar numbers to those that dvdinfopro showed right before the last 1%. (except for PI failures? lots more in total?) When finalizing a cd imgburner did not have to retry, gave no error messages and the disc worked fine in my standalone player. Here's another scan with dvdinfopro with a ss at 99% Oddly enough this time around with the same disc, indicated a much much lower PI peak, it will still not load in the standalone player though. And just to mess things up a bit more I ran a kprobe as well (which really seems to verify cdspeed's numbers): Setting kprobe to overscan though (only last blocks and a few "past" the end): Could it be that imgburner finalizes the disc twice/doesn't give the drive/disc/computer enough time when finalizing and jumping to a retry too quickly? Since there's apparantly a spike right after (@ 1DFEDF) the "actual" end (@ 1DFECF) of the image? I'm just speculating, don't really know the exact specs of how and where filetables, image/partition specs etc are stored on dvd's.

Well, although I really do like to know what my apps are doing, my problem is not the error itself, the thing is, I've got 7 "coasters" lying around that imgburner created for me which won't play in my standalone dvd-player, which is really the problem. The scans I posted were mainly an attempt to see what was causing it. The retry on finalizing the disc didn't happen on the one disc imgburner made that worked fine, and so I simply assumed it is probably related to the issues I'm having. Also I've changed nothing in imgburner's settings since the one good disc was made. Judging from how my standalone player is trying to load the discs (instead of just refusing like when using the wrong filesystem/etc), imho it really seems there's a burn-error linked to the retry-method/issue. Here's a new scan with the settings you suggested, up until 99% of the scan the PI peak was at 17, so really something seems to have gone wrong when finalizing the disc Oh and make no mistake, I'm writing this only because I want to use imgburner instead

I've also got a SH-S203B, although it does not seem to work very well with imgburn regardless of firmware, I still get "Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (99%, 0/3) - Program Memory Area Update Failure" Although the discs "work" (at least in my pc) since the second attempt at finalizing the disc always works, the quality is quite poor and my standalone dvd/divx/xvid player won't play them at all. The thing is I burned one successfull dvd with imgburn, afterwhich I've not been able to create a single other good disc, while other programs such as for example "cdburnerxp" works just fine. Here's a comparision of my latest attempt with imgburn and cdburnerxp Imgburn: Log for this burn: I 12:41:45 Operation Started! I 12:41:45 Building Image Tree... I 12:41:45 Checking Directory Depth... I 12:41:45 Calculating Totals... I 12:41:45 Preparing Image... W 12:41:45 ISO9660 File System: 4 folder/file names have been modified due to your current settings. I 12:41:45 Checking Path Length... I 12:41:45 Contents: 6 Files, 0 Folders I 12:41:45 Size: 4 025 838 250 bytes I 12:41:45 Sectors: 1 965 742 I 12:41:45 Image Size: 4 025 909 248 bytes I 12:41:45 Image Sectors: 1 965 776 I 12:41:45 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00 I 12:41:52 Operation Started! I 12:41:52 Building Image Tree... I 12:41:58 Checking Directory Depth... I 12:41:58 Calculating Totals... I 12:41:58 Preparing Image... W 12:41:58 ISO9660 File System: 4 folder/file names have been modified due to your current settings. I 12:41:58 Checking Path Length... I 12:41:58 Contents: 6 Files, 0 Folders I 12:41:58 Size: 4 025 838 250 bytes I 12:41:58 Sectors: 1 965 742 I 12:41:58 Image Size: 4 025 909 248 bytes I 12:41:58 Image Sectors: 1 965 776 I 12:41:59 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:06 I 12:41:59 Operation Started! I 12:41:59 Source File: -==/\/[BUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 12:41:59 Source File Sectors: 1 965 776 (MODE1/2048) I 12:41:59 Source File Size: 4 025 909 248 bytes I 12:41:59 Source File Volume Identifier: DVD002 I 12:41:59 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.4.0.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 12:41:59 Source File File System(s): ISO9660 I 12:41:59 Destination Device: [2:0:0] TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203B SB03 (F:) (ATA) I 12:41:59 Destination Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: SONY-D11-00) (Speeds: 4x; 6x; 8x; 12x) I 12:41:59 Destination Media Sectors: 2 295 104 I 12:41:59 Write Mode: DVD I 12:41:59 Write Type: DAO I 12:41:59 Write Speed: 8x I 12:41:59 Link Size: Auto I 12:41:59 Test Mode: No I 12:41:59 OPC: Yes I 12:41:59 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 12:41:59 Book Type Setting: DVD-ROM I 12:42:10 Filling Buffer... (40 MB) I 12:42:12 Writing LeadIn... I 12:42:13 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 1965775) I 12:42:13 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 1965775) I 12:48:46 Synchronising Cache... I 12:48:51 Closing Track... I 12:48:54 Finalising Disc... W 12:49:11 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (99%, 0/3) - Program Memory Area Update Failure W 12:49:11 Finalise Disc Failed! - Reason: Program Memory Area Update Failure W 12:49:11 Retrying (2 of 3)... I 12:49:27 Exporting Graph Data... I 12:49:27 Graph Data File: I:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\ImgBurn\IBG Files\TSSTcorp_CDDVDW_SH-S203B_SB03_DEN-20-FEBRUARI-2008_12-41_SONY-D11-00_8x.ibg I 12:49:27 Export Successfully Completed! I 12:49:27 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:07:28 I 12:49:27 Average Write Rate: 10 029 KB/s (7.2x) - Maximum Write Rate: 11 132 KB/s (8.0x) I 13:04:06 Close Request Acknowledged I 13:04:06 Closing Down... I 13:04:06 Shutting down SPTI... I 13:04:06 ImgBurn closed! Same files, same media, same boot cycle, firmware, etc, etc using cdburnerxp: Also the disc plays just fine in my standalone dvd/divx/xvid-player. I'm not saying this is neccesarily imgburner's fault, but there does seem to be some issue with (at least) the sh-s203b and imgburner, considering other apps seem to work fine. And yeah, true enough the media might not be top quality, but I've tried 8-9 dvd's with imgburner (of which first was successful, also that first one did not have to retry in order to finalize disc), and next disc I pick (for cdburnerxp) happens to be good? It's not impossible the media was bad, but it doesn't seem very likely imho, I'm not going to try more discs with imgburner unless I get some tips on what may be at fault apart from the media. Any ideas?