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  1. If your drive is 9 years old, it's well beyond twice the life span I've gotten from my best Pioneer. So, yeah, I'd say it's given up the ghost. As for the other thing about write speeds, it does seem a drive is capable of writing a media at greater than its highest listed write descriptor. It seem the drive manufacturer has tested that media at higher rates and they weren't corrupted by the faster writes. So, they "rate" them in the write strategies at higher that available writes in the write descriptors.
  2. My BD-R are physically labeled as 6x. Don't know what the actual write descriptors on the disc are because I don't care! I only care about what speeds I can get from the drive. So, I haven't checked the actual write descriptors on one of these BD-R in ImgBurn and it's not something that interests me to do so.
  3. I don't know for sure, but I would guess there isn't a write descriptor on the media for anything more than its highest maximum rate. The ability of the drive to write at higher rates of speed is down to the write strategy in the burner's firmware.
  4. Many drives are capable of writing BD-R media capped at lower maximum write speeds at higher rates. For instance, my Verbatim BD-R are rated at 6x, but the Pioneer BDR-29M writes them at about 12x max.
  5. I'm no expert, but I would have to say that if anything is done before Writing LeadIn to prepare a disc for writing, it must be super quick.
  6. Were you able to burn these Ritek discs before successfully under firmware revision 3.03? Or did you just recently update the firmware and it stopped working? If the latter is the case, there's probably a bug in the firmware for that media write strategy. Wouldn't surprise me. I had 2 of these drives in 2016 and they were terrible. I sent the 2nd one back after it did the same thing as the first: destroy Ritek 8x rewritable DVD+RW and Verbatim 2x BD-RE. I'd hope these firmware updates since 2016 would have improved this drive by now. I wouldn't necessarily throw the drive away off the bat. First I'd try some better BD-R like Verbatim. If you got the same write failures on better quality media, then I'd suspect the drive or the firmware is the problem. I threw my first one of these drives away only because I couldn't return it. I'd taken off the bar code from the box for a refund so I couldn't return it. The 2nd one I got to see if I had just gotten a bad unit, but it was just as bad. So, I was able to return that one. I'd have hoped firmware revisions might improve the performance of this drive by now.
  7. Windows caps the maximum number of displayable characters, for a reason I'll be damned if I can figure out. So, probably, most other software is just returning what Windows does. Or the other software sets its own crippling limits for reasons only the author knows. As for your original question, I created a new job in ImgBurn using UDF 2.60 and the maximum UDF label field length is 126 characters. I created a new job in ImgBurn with 2.50 and it too is 126 characters. As for why ImgBurn is capping you at 64 characters, I don't know. The ISO label is 32 maximum, it seems. Joliet is even less, half that. VolumeIdentifier may be something different, though, than what Windows returns as the disc label. Windows should normally read the UDF or ISO labels.
  8. I was wondering if the absence of the DID entry might be indicative of a possible problem with your drive. However, on further consideration, it seems more likely that those Optical Quantum discs may simply not have a DID present on them. I'm guessing if ImgBurn doesn't find a DID label on the media, it doesn't return anything? I've never seen a media format corrupted error before, so I can't say what it means. Maybe it was the Ritek discs that were the problem. However, that doesn't address your initial concern. If ImgBurn does any kind of writing to discs at the gathering of files stage. Were you creating an image file or writing these files on the fly to the BD-R? If you were writing on the fly, I can see it writing a packet of files, gathering some more, and then writing those while gathering some more. That might explain why some content was written to the disc. If you were creating an image file first and that was when the gathering of files was done, then nothing would have been written to an inserted disc because no access to the drive was being performed.
  9. DID is Disc ID. It tells who manufactured the disc. It's generally a line in the log that I usually see. So, I didn't see it going over the logs and I was curious as to why it wasn't there.
  10. The thing I noticed that was odd, to me anyway, was why did neither log seem to indicate, that I could find, what the DID of the BD-R was.
  11. I am guessing nothing happens if you select No. If you select Yes, the test is performed but data may actually be written to the disc instead of a virtual write. I'd say the Test mode determines if your drive can handle the media type inserted. It might crap out on things like smudges or damaged discs. I've never used the Test mode, so I couldn't say anything from experience.
  12. Ah, I see. You're writing your own script. So, you'd want to know how to "manually" determine this.
  13. Also, why not just load the ISO in ImgBurn? It should surely tell you if the ISO won't fit the DVD+R you have inserted into your drive. It should either deny it or ask if you want to overburn it, which would tell you it won't fit on the DVD+R at its current size without overburn. So, it's, at least, slightly larger than the DVD+R size.
  14. Also, wouldn't IFOEdit tell you the exact time the layer break occurs?
  15. No, you're probably not. You're probably using the Life Series if they said Verbatim on them. I told you to use the DataLife Plus series, not the Life Series which you will find in stores. Life Series is CMC. Even Verbatim farms out to crap CMC.
  16. Yes, if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say your most likely cause is you're using CMC Magnetics media. CMC makes the worst media out there. It's cheap and plentiful for a reason. It causes probably more than half of the problems we see on this board. Try Verbatim DataLife Plus media. NOT Life Media you find in stores. DataLife Plus is only found online. As far as double layer DVD media goes, Verbatim is, pretty much, the gold standard. And it's really the only reliable blanks for that purpose, although I've had good results with TDK's discs.
  17. Generally, my experience with that error is either cheap discs or good discs that your drive doesn't like.
  18. My experience with ASUS has been iffy. The first ASUS I had was an external model which passed all tests I threw at it, but now that I have to use it as my primary drive, it sometimes only writes at 4x to 8x rated DVD+R DL. Given my success with this ASUS, I tried your ASUS twice and it failed miserably. It destroys Ritek 8x DVD+RW and Verbatim BD-RE DL. I thought maybe I got a bad unit initially so I tried another and got the same results. With those catastrophic failures, I simply returned that ASUS and wrote it off as trash. I still prefer my Pioneer BDR-2209 over anything else. Once I can find a decent enough USB enclosure that doesn't drop communication like the last one I got. Since Dell removed the half height bays from their PC's, forcing you to choose junk slim models. Which I won't do. I got one in my new Dell and it's already revealed what I've learned from users on this forum about slim drives. It's always possible you got a bad batch of discs if you've used them before with no problem. However, that's generally unlikely. What is more likely is that Quantum changed the manufacturing process, if they did that, so they're not the same kind of discs they used to produce. Without failures on discs I know I are good, the Verbatim VERBAT-IM discs, I couldn't say if it's the discs you're using or not.
  19. Did you get failed burns on the LG, too? I couldn't quite tell if you had said that or not. You've used 2 different types of discs, the Quantum and Ritek. Ritek is a known problem maker. I've never had Quantum kind so I can't say. Were you getting success with Quantums before? If this is your first time using Quantum, maybe they aren't quality blanks after all. Or your drive doesn't like them. Now, I can tell you from trying 2 different units of the BW-16D1HT, that ASUS drive is trash. It destroys rewritable media so I can't see that it's any good at writing, well, anything. Which is why I asked if you were also getting failures on the LG, too. If you were getting failures on both drives, the only thing I would try next is trying a known quality BD-R like Verbatim's VERBAT-IM kind. If you get failures on those, then you know it's not down to the drives as you get failures on both drives and on 3 different kinds of media. So, the issue must be something else. Either a hardware problem or a Windows configuration error of some kind.
  20. You can get the previous failed log from Help --> ImgBurn Logs. You can then copy and paste the appropriate section of the log featuring the last failed burn.
  21. After checking to see if your AV/firewall/security software isn't preventing it from running (Although why it would suddenly stop allowing it would be down to an update in the AV definitions.) I'd simply try uninstalling and reinstalling ImgBurn. If you can't get it to run, what have you got to lose at this point by doing that?
  22. If I were ever to have to get more BD-RE SL, I'd probably see if I could get more of the Panasonic kind I got like 5 years ago. The DID indicated they were Panasonic brand, which is generally good. At least, they made good DVD-R back in like 2002 when I first started recording DVD's for converting my VHS collection with their standalone DVD recorder. Back when DVD-R was $12 a pop!
  23. Last time I ordered Verbatim BD-RE SL, it was a ten pack from Amazon.com and they were the CMC red and silver ones. So, I put Verbatim BD-RE SL on my list. I recently ordered a Verbatim BD-RE DL from Amazon.com and they were still the good VERBAT-IM kind with the blue and white labels like Verbatim's BD-R. You can only order singles, though. That order was placed about 2 or 3 weeks ago, so maybe it was just leftover stock.
  24. I've updated the firmware to the older 1.03 from 2014 (it turns out there are two 1.03 updates on the LG website - the newer one you've mention above from 2018 (N1.03), and an older one from 2014 (1.03-A0) which I didn't notice before), and it didn't solve the problem. You wrote above that LG drives aren't good readers, so what drives ARE recommended as good readers? I'm considering creating images of a lot of my old CDs, but there's no point in such a project if my drive isn't a good reader (I'm already scared that a lot of those old CDs will anyway be problematic reading-wise, so a good reader is crucial). Side-note - UltraHD Blu-Ray is a new format from 2015, which is not compatible with older Blu-Ray drives, so I don't think it's possible for my drive to read it at all. The closest model that can read these discs is WH16NS40, but my drive is WH14NS40. Yeah, I was not aware of the N1.03 firmware. I don't know what that does. The 1.03 I knew of was from December 2017. This N1.03 on LG's web site is dated February 28th, 2018. Funny thing is, that N1.03 firmware is not listed on the firmwarehq page that ImgBurn checks for firmware updates. So, there may, in fact, be 3 1.03 firmwares, if there's one from 2014, which I only recall the 1.02 from 2014. I think the one you're thinking of from 2014 is 1.02, which is the date for 1.02 on firmwarehq. Firmwarehq then lists a 1.03 from December 2017. And LG's web site for the drive lists an N1.03 firmware from 2018-02-28.
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