MarkDavidoff

They are fakes. I read on forums of other ppl having problems with these disks. I'll never buy lazer again. Thanks for you help

Yes hang only occurred for these Lazer brand disks (and possibly others, but have never come across any other brand that does this) That disk, was in fact the lazer brand disk. It can read them fine (with no hang). It only hangs on blank media in IMGburn In all the tests i posted above, i used the lazer disks. I have never had a problem with Verbatim in the drive. In summary of all my posts: A blank lazer disk hung in the LG drive. I posted the info of this disk from the other DVD drive that worked with the lazer disk. I then let the thing hang in the LG drive for 1.5 hours and posted the info from the LG drive when it had finished hanging (and displayed disk not empty). I then used the disk to burn an image using the other DVD drive that worked with the lazer disk. I then inserted this burnt disk into the LG drive and posted the info. (Again), this involved the lazer disks. No Verbatim was used in the information i posted

Verbatim DVD5 and DVD9 burn perfectly in my LG drive. Its these damn Lazer disks my burner hates. This is the first time my burner has ever failed me Here is the disk burnt by my laptop using the blank disk mentioned above in the LG Drive: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B A117 (ATA) Current Profile: DVD-ROM Disc Information: Status: Complete Erasable: No Sessions: 1 Sectors: 1,302,321 Size: 2,667,153,408 bytes Time: 289:26:21 (MM:SS:FF) TOC Information: Session 1... (LBA: 0) -> Track 01 (Mode 1, LBA: 0 - 1302320) -> LeadOut (LBA: 1302321) Track Information: Session 1... -> Track 01 (LTSA: 0, TS: 1302321, LRA: 1302320) Pre-recorded Information: Manufacturer ID: MCC 03RG20 Recording Management Area Information: TEAC TCJKA2271120 DVD+-RW DVW28SLC Physical Format Information (Last Recorded): Book Type: DVD-R Part Version: 5 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 1 Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP) Linear Density: 0.267 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 1,498,928 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 0

Laptop - Blank disk: TEAC DVD+-RW DVW28SLC A.06 (ATA) Current Profile: DVD-R Disc Information: Status: Empty Erasable: No Free Sectors: 2,297,888 Free Space: 4,706,074,624 bytes Free Time: 510:40:38 (MM:SS:FF) Supported Write Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x Pre-recorded Information: Manufacturer ID: MCC 03RG20 Recording Management Area Information: TEAC DVD+-RW DVW28SLC Physical Format Information (Last Recorded): Book Type: DVD-R Part Version: 5 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 1 Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP) Linear Density: 0.267 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 0 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 0 LG Burner - after 1.5 hours (different blank disk, same brand): HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B A117 (ATA) Current Profile: DVD-R Disc Information: Status: Complete Erasable: No Sessions: 1 Supported Write Speeds: 1x, 2x Physical Format Information (Last Recorded): Book Type: DVD-R Part Version: 5 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 1 Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP) Linear Density: 0.267 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 2,495,103 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 0 LG Burner - using the disk burnt by the laptop: Was able to successfully read the disk with no problems. No hanging occurred EDIT: changed the word "Desktop" to "LG Burner" to avoid confusion

OK...i downgraded to A115 (A116 doesn't actually exist). Still no luck. It must be the medium i just bought. I still think the bug of imgburn locking up the computer needs to be corrected however. What do you think of the quality of lazer (the brand)? I had no problems with their media until now

I cleaned the lens with no success. The problem seems to be the drive because the media worked fine in my laptop's DVD burner I will try a firmware downgrade soon and report back

Yes, sorry it is the area information. I left IMGburn overnight to see if it would actually finish, and it did, but then it showed "disk not empty" on my newly bought disk.

The title says it all. ImgBurn locks up at the "Getting Disk Management Information" using ImgBurn and DVD Decrypter on GSA-4120B with the latest RPC1 firmware after inserting my blank DVD-R. The CD Drive keeps flashing forever, and the computer becomes unstable. I am unable to close imgBurn (stays at terminating thread) and when forcing an exit in the task manager (close process tree) it doesn't close, however the window does...but it still remains in the process list and the drive continues to flash. I am also unable to start any other programs or shut-down / restart as the system becomes unstable. I have to hard reset the computer. I havent used imgburn / dvd decrypter in a while, but the error applies to both programs. EDIT: I am running Windows XP Pro SP3 with all the latest updates on an intel XBX2 mobo. The drive is the master on the IDE controller