taneal1

Ain't that the truth! My opinion is that the problem is the burner. I called Plextor tec support today and they agree that the problem seems to be the burner itself. They have agreed to send a replacement, so I will ship the drive off to them tomorrow. I hope they move fast... They'll probably send another 740 as a replacement, but I'm hoping they don't have any and have to send a 750. It can't hurt to get a newer drive. :-) Thanks for your imput! Tom

I've had no problem burning single-layer discs. For the the DLs I did switch to Verbatim, but I'm still getting coasters. With my Plextor 740A and PGCEdit/ImgBurn the ISO file is created with no errors. When I burn the disc no errors are indicated. However, during the Verify stage I get: I/O Error! Unrecovered Read Error. This occurs *prior* to reading side 2 of the disc, so I'm assuming the layer break is not the cause of the errors. The burned disk freezes and some menu choices don't function. DVDInfo shows that the Booktype is set to "DVD-ROM". Also the Layer Break is set to the same sector as the original disk. Any ideas are welcome!!! Tom

To set the Book Type on my Plextor 740A, rather than set the drive tab to Plextor, I set it to Benq. My 740A is after all a "Benq" drive. This allows me to change the Book Type for +R, +RW & +R DL. Following any change the new booktype is correctly shown as the current booktype. Presumably this is successfully changing the booktype. *IF* I could successfully burn a DVD+R DL I could read the disc to be certain, but I have had no success thus far. Plextor 740A w/ firmware v1.02 (the latest) Maxell (actually a "RITEK") DVD+R DL "Saving Private Ryan" from folder on HDD Burning with PGCEdit and IMGBurn, I can create an ISO version that is reported as "Okay". Also, when mounted it plays perfectly. However, with several attempts at burning to DVD, I have created a DVD that fails verify, but seems to work, another that fails to play some of the "specials" and another that stopped writing halfway through the burn. The disk is more than 99% full, so the only suggested location for the Layer Break was the midpoint of the DVD where it is located on the original disc. I left this location unchanged. I have switched to Verbatim DVD+R DL media. This was what I wanted in the first place but couldn't find any at the local stores. So far I haven't tried burning with the Verbatim as I wanted to do some more research first... Any suggestions as to what I should try next are GREATLY appreciated! Tom