shanks

yes, they are full. I havent tried doing test burns or burning at higher speeds, but ill try those and get back to you. i have another question though, about something else. Just now i tried burning an iso with lots of stuff running in the background and my buffers were going up and down (normally they stay full until the burning is finished). I was wondering if this is bad at all for the image. Like, would i get the same quality disc if i burned it like this, than if the buffers were full the whole time? (might be a stupid question but i dont know what the buffers do :S) Heres what part of the log looks like: I 04:46:13 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2174063) W 04:47:08 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 04:47:16 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 04:47:17 Writing Sectors... W 04:48:15 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 04:48:25 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 04:48:26 Writing Sectors... W 04:49:03 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 04:49:11 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 04:49:12 Writing Sectors... W 04:50:14 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 04:50:23 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 04:50:24 Writing Sectors... W 04:53:50 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 04:53:55 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 04:53:56 Writing Sectors... W 04:54:50 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 04:54:58 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 04:54:59 Writing Sectors... W 04:56:27 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 04:56:39 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 04:56:40 Writing Sectors... W 04:59:57 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 05:00:03 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 05:00:04 Writing Sectors... I 05:02:38 Synchronising Cache... I 05:02:59 Exporting Graph Data... I 05:02:59 Graph Data File: C:\Documents and Settings\Royiz\Application Data\ImgBurn\IBG Files\DVDRW_IDE_16X_A091_JUNE-29-2008_4-45_AM_MCC_03RG20_4x.ibg I 05:02:59 Export Successfully Completed! I 05:02:59 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:17:13 I 05:02:59 Average Write Rate: 4,414 KB/s (3.2x) - Maximum Write Rate: 5,750 KB/s (4.2x)

ok, im not sure if this is exactly wat you want but: this iso went to 75% and then stopped writing. after around 18 minutes I aborted. I 01:10:24 ImgBurn Version 2.4.1.0 started! I 01:10:24 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 01:10:24 Total Physical Memory: 2,096,628 KB - Available: 1,587,888 KB I 01:10:24 Initialising SPTI... I 01:10:24 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 01:10:24 Found 1 DVD-ROM, 1 DVD

I have had this problem with a few ISOs that ive been trying to burn. They would start burning normally, and suddenly stop somewhere in the midst of writing, the write speed would go to 0. ive also noticed the same isos will stop at the same completion % every time, if i try to burn them again. does anybody know why this is happening?