dbminter

Yes, as of now, personal use copying of CD's, DVD's, and MP3's that you own and don't share with other people is perfectly legal in the UK.

Sort of like my story with 2.5.8.0. I pointed out the new version to my best friend and he installed it. Then, he told me after installing it, he had all of his bookmarks deleted. I guessed he got click happy and something from OpenCandy replaced his bookmarks. I've not heard from him ever since; it's been almost a year now. But, do I blame the author of ImgBurn for this? No.

This might explain something I noticed with my Pioneer. I've never had a Pioneer before but it does seem a little slower at Verifying than other drives I've had. I might see if this new ImgBurn feature turns off this Quiet Drive in my drive if it's something that is actually there.

There is an update for it. Funny thing, like with my LG, the update did not try to reassign a drive letter in Windows. In fact, the flashing didn't require a restart of the computer!

Looks like there might be an update for this drive now. There's an ID60 1.20 firmware dated May 19th available now.

Unfortunately, I don't have any other advice. My expertise ends pretty much with throwing CMC on the pile. Changing the firmware probably wouldn't help, unless it's a firmware that is newer. You should always update your firmware whenever newer versions are available. A newer firmware might help. Even in the USA where I'm from, most of what you'll find in stores is CMC shit. Sony at least outsources to Ritek now. Ritek isn't the best but it's not the worst. I saw you used a Ritek above. Unfortunately, I think in countries outside the US, Ritek media is not very good. I don't have problems with Ritek; they make my 8x DVD+RW and my Memorex BD-RE's. I have to mail order Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden media from Amazon.com.

Your most likely answer is the Philips media. It says it's CMC MAG. CMC is the worst optical media manufacturer out there. I had come across them over 10 years ago. Half of the discs wouldn't complete a burn. Half of those that did would fail to Verify. Half of the remainder would not be recognized for playing on any of my DVD players. Try Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R.

I believe that log entry shows up when you have Alcohol virtual drive software installed. I used to use it and I just ignored it as I saw no detrimental effect on my drive performances. I use VirtualCloneDrive now, though. Alcohol had some kind of pass through driver installed that prevented ZoneAlarm from working properly.

I don't know if this is a bug or not so I'm passing it along in case it's something to be investigated. I had created a CUE sheet and saved it to a rather lengthy folder name and file name combination. When I went to burn it to CD, I hovered over the name of the CUE file in the left pane in ImgBurn to make sure I could see the full file name and make sure I was burning the right disc, as I had 2 CUE files to burn to disc. The pop-up displayed the name of the CUE sheet but it was a bit odd. The folder name, including the entire sub-folder structure, was not in long file name format, but in 8.3 format with ~'s and the first few letters in uppercase. The name of the actual CUE sheet itself was in its long name format, without ~'s and all uppercase letters. Sorry, I think I may have made a few facts muddy. It was hovering over the Source field that it's pop-up was in 8.3 format. Not the Label field, of course.

What exactly does full certification do and how much time might it have added to the process?

Got my first BD-RE DL today. I fully erased it and got 2 Warning notices in the log. Thought I'd pass along the log and see if it's something that needs to be addressed: I 17:06:04 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 17:06:04 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1) I 17:06:04 Total Physical Memory: 8,370,632 KiB - Available: 5,838,284 KiB I 17:06:04 Initialising SPTI... I 17:06:04 -> Drive 5 - Info: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-209M 1.10-ID60 (S:) (SATA) I 17:07:07 Operation Started! I 17:07:07 Device: [0:0:0] PIONEER BD-RW BDR-209M 1.10 (S:) (SATA) I 17:07:07 Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: VERBAT-IM1-000) I 17:07:07 Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x I 17:07:07 Quick Erase: No I 17:07:07 Format Properly: Yes I 17:07:07 Format Size: Preferred I 17:07:07 Format With Full Certification: Yes I 17:07:07 Format Without Spare Areas: Yes I 17:07:07 Erasing Disc... W 17:07:07 FormatDisc(FT: 0x31, FST: 0x02) Not Supported! W 17:07:07 FormatDisc(FT: 0x31, FST: 0x03) Not Supported! I 17:07:32 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:24 I 17:07:32 Operation Started! I 17:07:32 Device: [0:0:0] PIONEER BD-RW BDR-209M 1.10 (S:) (SATA) I 17:07:32 Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: VERBAT-IM1-000) I 17:07:32 Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x I 17:07:32 Media Sectors: 24,438,784 I 17:07:32 BD-RE FastWrite: No I 17:07:32 Zeroing Sectors... I 18:41:29 Synchronising Cache... I 18:41:33 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 01:33:57 - Total Duration: 01:34:22 I 18:41:33 Average Write Rate: 8,670 KiB/s (2.0x)

Well, I received and formatted by Verbatim BD-RE DL in my Pioneer Blu-Ray rewritable drive. It took Total Duration: 01:34:22. Now, depending on what you changed in the settings, I could see it taking twice as long as it did for me as it did for you.

Actually, I just now discovered by accidentally pressing my Caps Lock key that there is a barely visible until it illuminates light! The other Locks don't do this. They should, though!

I ordered a Verbatim BD-RE DL today. It should be here within 8 days. I'll then format it and post how long it took me to do it using the default options for ImgBurn, unchanged.

Well, the CMC Magentics may be a problem. CMC Magnetics makes some of the worst optical media out there. I had some from when Optodisc switched from making their own DVD-R's. Half of their 200 cake stacks would not complete a burn. Half of those that did would not complete a Verify! I don't trust CMC as far as I can throw them! When I discover CMC in the MID of a media I'm unfamiliar with, I send them back. Even Verbatim outsources their CD-R to CMC. Now, CMC sometimes make a DVD+R that seems to be okay. However, given their track record with other optical media, I still wouldn't trust them. I get my media online. Taiyo Yuden or TDK CD-R's, Memorex Mitsubishi MCC CD-RW's, and Verbatim DVD-R, DVD+R DL, BD-R, and BD-RE, and Memorex/Ritek BD-RE. The funny thing is Memorex is mostly crap, outsourcing their DVD-R and CD-R's to CMC. But, their DVD+R is pretty good and their 24x CD-RW's are outsourced to one of the best makers of optical media out there, MCC, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.

Thanks! The first one does what I need. Not the best way but it works well enough that I don't need to try the others out.

So, the ID part of the firmware version string is the Kernel Version? Mine being 60 and the firmware revision I thought was newer, being ID59, isn't my drive.

Odd. ImgBurn says my Pioneer drive is a BDR-209M. The check for firmware updates in ImgBurn shows a listing in its master list of drive strings for BDR-209M. But, the utility doesn't update the firmware. It appears to be a newer firmware, 1.02 versus 1.01, although the ID part at the end of 1 less than mine.

I have a wireless keyboard powered by batteries. As such, there have reduced the number of indicator lights to one, the power level. I need an app I can run that will tell me what the status of the Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock keys are. I can check the Caps Lock one fairly easily by typing in the Search field in the Start menu and see if the letters are upper or lower case. However, I can't think of a way to check the other 2 keys without some kind of app that does it. I tried Googling some search terms but all the hits I found were for API and C code to check the status of the keys. No app I can run to do it. Can anyone recommend such a utility I can run in Windows 7. Freeware, of course. Thanks!

Yeah, I've only gotten about 14x at the tail end of a Verify on a DVD-5.

You know? I never even bothered to think that's it's most fair to compare 1x to 1x. I do wonder, though, why BD-RE verified at a much faster read rate than the DVD+RW did.

Drive Info: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-209M 1.10-ID60 (SATA) Image Size: 4,591,452,160 bytes 8x Ridata/Ricoh/Ritek DVD+RW Destination Media Type: DVD+RW (Disc ID: RICOHJPN-W21-01) Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 3.3x, 6x, 8x Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 11,080 KB/s (8x) Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:07:50 Average Write Rate: 9,964 KiB/s (7.4x) - Maximum Write Rate: 10,935 KiB/s (8.1x) Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 12x Read Speed - Effective: 5x - 12x Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:06:28 Average Verify Rate: 11,616 KiB/s (8.6x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 16,765 KiB/s (12.4x) 2x Memorex/Ritek BD-RE Destination Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: RITEK-BW1-001) Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:08:51 Average Write Rate: 8,672 KiB/s (2.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 8,826 KiB/s (2.0x) Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 10x Read Speed - Effective: 4.1x - 10x Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:03:36 Average Verify Rate: 20,952 KiB/s (4.8x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 25,283 KiB/s (5.8x) Interesting. For larger image sizes, the DVD+RW was 1 minute and 1 second faster than the BD-RE. So, LUK, you were right. For LARGER image sizes, that is. Equally interesting, the Verify took almost twice as long on the DVD+RW versus the BD-RE.

I decided to redo this test to make it a little more "fair." I used a CD image file size that was larger so the write times for CD-RW and DVD+RW would reach their graduated maximum speeds. Drive Info: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-209M 1.10-ID60 (SATA) Image Size: 663,814,144 bytes 24x Memorex/MCC CD-RW Source Media Type: CD-RW (Disc ID: 97m34s24f, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp.) Media Supported Write Speeds: 10x, 16x, 24x Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 4,234 KB/s (24x) Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:03:48 Average Write Rate: 3,193 KiB/s (18.5x) - Maximum Write Rate: 3,637 KiB/s (21.1x) Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 24x Read Speed - Effective: 24x Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:04:17 Average Verify Rate: 2,532 KiB/s (14.7x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 3,664 KiB/s (21.3x) 8x Ridata/Ricoh/Ritek DVD+RW Destination Media Type: DVD+RW (Disc ID: RICOHJPN-W21-01) Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 3.3x, 6x, 8x Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:01:51 Average Write Rate: 7,283 KiB/s (5.4x) - Maximum Write Rate: 10,903 KiB/s (8.1x) Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 12x Read Speed - Effective: 5x - 12x Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:01:30 Average Verify Rate: 7,366 KiB/s (5.4x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 9,070 KiB/s (6.7x) 2x Memorex/Ritek BD-RE Destination Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: RITEK-BW1-001) Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 8,990 KB/s (2x) Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:01:29 Average Write Rate: 8,529 KiB/s (1.9x) - Maximum Write Rate: 8,817 KiB/s (2.0x) Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 10x Read Speed - Effective: 4.1x - 10x Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:43 Average Verify Rate: 15,434 KiB/s (3.5x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 19,512 KiB/s (4.4x) The results were relatively still the same. The write on BD-RE was 22 seconds faster. Now, for the sake of fairness, the DVD+RW didn't really write at 8x for very long. Only a few seconds. So, I'm going to rerun the DVD+RW and BD-RE tests with a 4 GB ISO, nearer the maximum of a DVD and see.

Well, they make claims ranging from like 30 to 100 years, so I wouldn't believe any of them. I have some DVD-R's I burned in 2002 that are still readable today. It also depends on the quality of the discs you buy. I had a Vanguard DVD-R, before I knew they were a cheap manufacturer, that was unreadable after a year. As for storage conditions, I only know of 2 things to do. Keep out of sunlight and away from heat. Store in low humidity.

TDK LightScribe CD-R's have also been discontinued by the manufacturer. So, yeah, I'd think it's safe to say that LightScribe is dead.