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