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hhmm; Yep, that is suspect. Manufacturer ID: CMC MAG. AM3 Okay, I re-read this thread in it's entirety. Yes, the Philips media is by CMC MAG so I will try changing that first thing after my vacation next week. Shamus and IfCrule, sorry I didn't get what you were trying to tell me earlier. It didn't click... I have never heard of Taiyo Yudens but I am sure I can get some Verbatim -R's. If this is indeed the issue then it is too bad that such well known brands use such lousy manufacturers. Thanks for all of the replies so far.

Yes, I do. I just got it under Vista too (which is an almost clean install) so I am back to suspecting the drive. For $30 bucks it's easy enough to get a new drive and I will know.

Actually, it apears now that it is a system issue. I spoke with tech support and they indicated that the test results inidcated a OS issue. Sure enough, when I dual boot and run ImgBurner under Vista, it works fine. I guess I need to check my system drivers next. The media I am using isn't the best (Philips) but it was consistently working and now consistently failling.

It appears that my drive is going bad. I used Sony's drive check utility and it failed. I will follow up with their tech support. Thanks anyway.

I am trying to burn a FedoraCore5-64 ISO to a DVD-R. I have wasted several DVDs now and I am getting frustrated. (For kicks I D/L an ISO from another Linux dist and got the same error, so I don't think it's the content.) The burn process goes as normal to the very very end as the buffer clears back to zero. The I get this: W 23:06:06 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (0/2) - Program Memory Area Update Failure Has anyone ever seen this before? I 22:56:45 ImgBurn Version 2.1.0.0 started! I 22:56:45 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 22:56:46 Initialising SPTI... I 22:56:46 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 22:56:46 Found 1 DVD?RW! I 22:57:10 Operation Started! I 22:57:10 Source File: C:\Torrents\bordeaux-DVD-x86_64\FC-5-x86_64-DVD.iso I 22:57:10 Source File Sectors: 1,690,737 (MODE1/2048) I 22:57:10 Source File Size: 3,462,629,376 bytes I 22:57:10 Source File Volume Identifier: FC_5 x86_64 I 22:57:10 Source File Application Identifier: FC/5 x86_64 I 22:57:11 Source File File System(s): ISO9660 (Bootable), Joliet I 22:57:11 Destination Device: [1:1:0] SONY DVD RW DRU-710A BYX5 (H:) (ATA) I 22:57:11 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: CMC MAG. AM3) (Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x) I 22:57:11 Destination Media Sectors: 2,297,888 I 22:57:11 Write Mode: DVD I 22:57:11 Write Type: DAO I 22:57:11 Write Speed: MAX I 22:57:11 Link Size: Auto I 22:57:11 Test Mode: No I 22:57:11 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 22:57:11 Filling Buffer... I 22:57:13 Writing LeadIn... I 22:58:08 Writing Image... W 22:59:31 Waiting for buffers to recover... I 22:59:44 Writing Image... I 23:05:17 Synchronising Cache... W 23:06:06 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (0/2) - Program Memory Area Update Failure