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Which ASUS drive? Be warned that if it's the latest BD drive they put out, I thoroughly tested two units and discovered they actually destroy rewritable Verbatm BD-RE DL discs I fed them. Also 8x Ritek DVD+RW I sent the drives back because they're borked. A firmware update in the future may fix this, but it's been about a year so far and there's no firmware update for it.

I've managed to find the good Verbatim DL's on Amazon.com. They sell the branded ones individually. And many Japanese resellers sell the inkjet printable ones. In fact, I need to get some of those inkjet ones pretty soon.

Yeah, if you fully formatted in ImgBurn and then wrote in Nero, I would think Nero would undo the full format and require another full format in ImgBurn if it writes to that disc again. Hm, you actually found good quality Verbatim BD-RE SL with a VERBAT-IM DID? As far as I can find, Verbatim only releases cheap junk CMC BD-RE SL. Hence why I've only gotten my BD-RE SL from Panasonic.

All I know on this subject is Nero does not fully comply with the standards for erasure. A proper format takes the entire writing time you mention: 90 minutes for BD-RE DL. ImgBurn performs "proper" formats, writing all available space. The good news is once ImgBurn does this, it doesn't have to be done again unless you need to do a full erase for a reformat for some reason. I know DVD+RW I'd used in Nero would then have ImgBurn say they weren't properly formatted and then fully format them before writing to them. Now, it may be what ImgBurn does is not "necessary," but does ensure proper formatting. And I don't think this can be changed in the settings. Something you might want to test and see if it's the same is to take an unformatted BD-RE DL and format it in Windows/File Explorer. See if it takes a full 90 minutes or if a "quick" format is performed. Of course, before ImgBurn will write to it, it will properly "fully" format a media.

Yeah, there's no 6x support for any rewritable BD media. There is for BD-R. So, your drive is returning wrong information for that media, and it's most likely as LUK said. No support in the firmware. Or it could be just typical Sony junk. My first BD-RE SL was a Sony and it died before its fifth write.

That's why I wanted to see the Log. To see if the OP was using crap discs. Which might explain why one time it works and one time it doesn't. Now, if quality media were being used, then, there would be cause to troubleshoot further.

Post the portion of the Log with the failed burn. It's under Help. You're saying you do a burn, it fails, but when you do another burn afterwards, it succeeds? Is this a repeatable pattern? Or has it only been this way over 2 burns? Depending on what I see in the log, it could be you'll mostly get failed burns, but, every once in a while, you'll get one that works.

There's nothing that prevents you from copying the .BIN files to an SD card. You'll need the .CUE and any other files ImgBurn generated. However, those files will only be useful for loading into ImgBurn and burning or mounting as virtual drives for playback in a CD software player. As far as I know, nothing natively supports playing .BIN files as audio CD's.

They're all over the place on Amazon.com. Don't know where you live. In fact, you'll only find DataLife Plus media online. However, on Amazon.com, most of what I found are printable surface labels. I use those, so that's what I get. If you don't print labels, you may not want those. If you want branded media surfaces, you'll need to look for Verbatim DVD+/-R with AZO dye. I don't know if you can find those in stores, but I know you can get them online. Here's mine: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00081A2KY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Yes, they're pretty much bad, too. I've only ever had 2 Phillips CD-R's, but they were CMC, which is junk. Sony has made little but junk since 2002. My first BD-RE was a Sony, and it died before it reached 5 writes.

Unfortunately, even the "best" can use the worst. Verbatim generally makes the best media, but even they will farm out to CMC Magnetics, the worst manufacturer of optical disc media out there. Verbatim Life Series CD and DVD media you find in stores will be CMC. And Verbatim BD-RE SL are CMC. But, the DataLife Plus CD-R, DVD-R, and DVD+R DL are Mitsubishi, the best you can get out there. And Verbatim BD-RE DL are good quality. And their BD-R, even though they're not labeled as DataLife Plus, are the gold standard of BD.

You may want to try more than 1 burn and make sure you get consistent results. It seems you got 1 good burn on the Traxdata and then none. So, maybe you just got 1 good Verbatim burn, but may not get other good burns. It's worth doing the test a few times to make sure you get good results each time.

Yeah, go ahead and see if that helps. Plus, you can always image the discs with Windows recovery files on them first. Then, you could burn the contents back after testing to "restore" them. Going back over your log again, it seems you did get a good burn on that Traxdata disc. So, I'm wondering if you just had a fluke and got a good burn that one time. A few tests to Verbatim should bear more info from their results.

This is probably your problem: I 22:51:15 Media Type: DVD+RW (Disc ID: RICOHJPN-W21-01) Since this seems to be the first write operation you've performed to this DVD+RW after formatting it, you've no experience with these media before? What's most likely the problem is your LG, and I think it's an LG burner, doesn't like those particular brand of Ricoh/Ritek DVD+RW. My LG had no problem with writing to 8x Ritek DVD+RW (It would Verify some discs that were obviously corrupt enough they wouldn't play properly, but that's another story.) but I don't know about your drive/media combination. Where I'd go from here is try some Verbatim DataLife Plus DVD+RW. I doubt Traxdata is of very high quality, as Ritek/Ricoh is a 2nd tier optical disc manufacturer. Don't get Life Series Verbatim. DataLife Plus Verbatim media can only be found online. I only use my Ritek DVD+RW because they're the only ones who made 8x DVD+RW, and now no one does.

I don't know, but I'd have to say no. In fact, you could probably only eject the drive using the pin hole eject. ImgBurn locks drives for exclusive access so nothing else can interfere with an operation. Thus, an eject command shouldn't work at all.

Maybe BIN/CUE can only be written to CD-R/RW. I know the Create CUE File function can only burn to those media. Doesn't even write to an image file. I don't use BIN/CUE as I have ImgBurn set to create .CCD files, which saves the BIN as a .IMG file. Standalone CD/DVD players generally check the type of media you've inserted to determine what to play. So, it won't play audio CD, generally, unless you insert a CD media. Thus, you'll want a CD-R/RW for this instance. Of course, the player has to support those functions/media and play nice with the media manufacturer you've burned to.

I would have thought ImgBurn would let you burn the CD-Audio image to a writable DVD, but warn you you're underburning, e.g. using the wrong media. I would have thought it should still would have allowed you to do it. I believe I tried writing a CD-Audio image to a BD-RE once because it was faster and I just needed to test playing it in Windows, not on a CD player. And that wouldn't work. Oh, wait, maybe that was .CUE files created from containers that wouldn't burn to BD-RE. Anyway, yeah, if you want a CD that plays in an audio CD player, you'll need CD-R/RW. And your CD player has to support CD-R and RW and support the particular brand you're using.

By "advice," I guessed he meant he followed a Guide. Now, you did use Read mode to create that BIN file, right? I mean, you have an audio CD you're trying to copy? In other words, just asking on the incredibly off chance you had a data CD that just happened to have the files format of an audio CD you read to an image file set in ImgBurn on the disc itself that you copied over. Most likely not. It seems you, most likely, read an audio CD using ImgBurn's Read function.

Yes, with Pioneer firmware, what you describe is not unprecedented. Two discs with the same Disc ID should be the same, but apparently aren't. Years ago, Verbatim DVD+R DL did the same thing on Pioneer burners. Verbatim's branded and inkjet printable DVD+R DL had the SAME DID, but the inkjet printable discs would ALWAYS fail Verify! The branded ones would always burn correctly. Pioneer eventually fixed this in a future firmware revision. So, it may be worth a support e-mail to Pioneer to let them know this. I let them know about their borking 1.33 to 1.34 for Ritek 8x DVD+RW and they apparently fixed it in 1.50. I also recently wrote them about their BD Drive Utility. If you have more than 1 kind (Multiple copies of the same drive don't do this.) of Pioneer BD drive installed on the system, the utility only recognizes the first connected Pioneer device as being available for configuration. They said this was normal behavior but that they'd forward it to the developers to see if they could do something about it. So, who knows if they actually will but, you never know.

I believe in witches, just not what they believe. There are such things as witches, in that there are women who practice magic. But, it doesn't mean what they believe is a fact. Same problem with gods. Gods exist because people have created them as a concept. Doesn't mean they're real, though, which they aren't.

You know? The sad fact of the matter is that some things just don't make sense. There's obviously a cause, but you'll be damned if you can find it. And the way I see it, as long as you get a working solution, go with it.

Those Primeon's you're burning appear to be Ritek. Ritek makes an OK single layer media for DVD, but don't use anything they make for DL DVD. So, I doubt their BD-R DL is going to be much better. Even if you had an improperly decrypted Blu-Ray movie you were attempting to burn, that wouldn't prevent the drive from starting writing to it. You'd get a burn that if it completed, it wouldn't play properly, most likely. Problems with writes that don't start or fail to complete are hardware related, generally. Either your drive needs replacing, it has a conflict with the media you're trying to burn to, or, in rare cases, some kind of software conflict is preventing the writing to media. However, it's not unusual for firmware updates to bork writing to particular media. There was the 1.33 to 1.34 bork I mentioned fixed by 1.50. I'd try Verbatim BD-R DL media and see if that works. If it does, then you know the issue is with Primeon discs. If Verbatim also fails, you have to consider the drive being the problem. If it's the drive, it may need replacing, there may be a bork in the latest firmware, or a software conflict going on.

Are there different read speeds for WORM media vs. their rewritable counterparts? I guess it's down to the rated read rate for a particular media dependent on the drive manufacturer. But, let's say, a drive is rated for 16x DVD-R/ROM read speed. Does this mean a read speed for a 4x DVD-RW will also be 16x? Probably not, but I don't know, hence why I'm asking. Thanks!

In fact, you won't find any good media in a store. Verbatim DataLife Plus media can only be found online. Even the Verbatim you find in stores is the Life series, which is junk.

Glad it worked!