Windjammer

Thanks for the response. I went ahead and watched the disc that burned successfully, but failed the verification process. It did end up having a glitch/skipped frames in one specific spot only. Are the discs you recommended the same ones I linked to in the Amazon listing here?

Hello, I'm having some issues with recent Sony BD-R 50GB DL media either failing mid burn or throwing errors during the verification stage. I recently purchased a 5-Pack of these discs that came from Japan. Historically, I've had success with Sony discs, so I bought some more to, hopefully, keep up the successful trend. Unfortunately, it hasn't been going well. The burner is a Pioneer BDR-XD05W (external drive, "Y" USB cable). Prior to today, I had two Sony BD-R 50GB discs leftover from a previous order from ~5 years ago. Both of those discs burned successfully—no issues at all. The next day, I got these new Sonys in the mail to try out. Using the same drive, PC, and USB ports, the first disc failed at 50% of the burn process (at the turn of the layer change). I burned at 2x speed. The error stated "Invalid Address For Write". I then attempted a second disc, this time I burned at 4x, and switched up the USB connectors (there are four on this particular PC). The burn completed successfully without errors, but then it failed during the verification stage at 50% stating "Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error". I then clicked re-try and got the error "Reason: Positioning Error Detected by Read of Medium". Finally, I clicked "Continue" and it progressed onward to completion with no further errors, however, I suspect the disc will likely has integrity issues given the flagging. The drive worked perfectly well the day before on two burns (but with the older BD-R media). I attempted to buy the exact same media, however the packaging is admittedly not exactly identical to the older kind, and the new discs have additional burn speeds: 2x, 4x, and 6x versus just 2x. When I checked the ImgBurn logs, the Disc ID of the old media is MEI-T01-001 while the Disc ID of the newer Sony media is VERBAT-IMf-000—so there is clearly a model difference. Is it likely an issue of my Pioneer drive simply not liking this particular Sony media? I thought about purchasing some Verbatim media like these but I assume the Disc ID may very well identical to the Sony's and produce the same issue? I'll post the logs of the two failures below, thanks for the help. Burn attempt #1: I 20:55:50 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 20:55:50 Microsoft Windows 8 Core x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200) I 20:55:50 Total Physical Memory: 8,266,800 KiB - Available: 2,467,496 KiB I 20:55:50 Initialising SPTI... I 20:55:50 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 20:55:50 -> Drive 1 - Info: HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM DH40N A101 (D:) (SATA) I 20:55:50 -> Drive 2 - Info: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-XD05 1.22-GENERAL (E:) (USB 2.0) I 20:55:50 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 BD-RE XL! I 20:56:48 Operation Started! I 20:56:48 Source File: xyz.iso I 20:56:48 Source File Sectors: 24,376,672 (MODE1/2048) I 20:56:48 Source File Size: 49,923,424,256 bytes I 20:56:48 Source File Volume Identifier: xxx I 20:56:48 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 48EF58BB0173F3F1 I 20:56:48 Source File Application Identifier: ImgBurn v2.5.8.0 I 20:56:48 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 20:56:48 Source File File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 20:56:48 Destination Device: [0:0:0] PIONEER BD-RW BDR-XD05 1.22 (E:) (USB) I 20:56:49 Destination Media Type: BD-R (Disc ID: VERBAT-IMf-000) I 20:56:49 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x I 20:56:49 Destination Media Sectors: 24,438,784 I 20:56:49 Write Mode: BD I 20:56:49 Write Type: DAO I 20:56:49 Write Speed: 2x I 20:56:49 Hardware Defect Management Active: No I 20:56:49 BD-R Verify Not Required: Yes I 20:56:49 Link Size: Auto I 20:56:49 Lock Volume: Yes I 20:56:49 Test Mode: No I 20:56:49 OPC: No I 20:56:49 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 20:56:49 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 8,990 KB/s (2x) I 20:56:49 Advanced Settings - Optimal Writing Speed: No I 20:56:50 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB) I 20:56:50 Writing LeadIn... I 20:57:11 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 24376671) I 20:57:11 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 24376671) I 20:57:11 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 12219391) W 21:43:58 Failed to Write Sectors 12097248 - 12097279 - Reason: Write Error W 21:43:58 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (2 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (3 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (4 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (5 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (6 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (7 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (8 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (9 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (10 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (11 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (12 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (13 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (14 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (15 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (16 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (17 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (18 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:07 Retrying (19 of 20)... W 21:44:07 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:44:08 Retrying (20 of 20)... W 21:44:08 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:49:35 Retrying (21)... W 21:49:35 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:49:40 Retrying (22)... W 21:49:40 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:49:41 Retrying (23)... W 21:49:41 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:49:41 Retrying (24)... W 21:49:41 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:49:41 Retrying (25)... W 21:49:41 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:49:42 Retrying (26)... W 21:49:42 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:49:42 Retrying (27)... W 21:49:42 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:49:42 Retrying (28)... W 21:49:42 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 21:49:42 Retrying (29)... W 21:49:42 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write E 21:49:43 Failed to Write Sectors 12097248 - 12097279 - Reason: Write Error I 21:49:43 Synchronising Cache... W 21:49:50 User opted to skip the 'Close Track/Session/Disc' functions. E 21:49:50 Failed to Write Image! I 21:49:50 Exporting Graph Data... I 21:49:50 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PIONEER_BD-RW_BDR-XD05_1.22_FRIDAY-JULY-11-2025_8-56_PM_VERBAT-IMf-000_2x.ibg I 21:49:50 Export Successfully Completed! E 21:49:50 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:53:01 I 21:49:50 Average Write Rate: 7,678 KiB/s (1.7x) - Maximum Write Rate: 8,832 KiB/s (2.0x) Burn Attempt #2: Successful, but Fails at Verification: I 22:10:46 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 22:10:46 Microsoft Windows 8 Core x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200) I 22:10:46 Total Physical Memory: 8,266,800 KiB - Available: 6,225,484 KiB I 22:10:46 Initialising SPTI... I 22:10:46 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 22:10:46 -> Drive 1 - Info: HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM DH40N A101 (D:) (SATA) I 22:10:46 -> Drive 2 - Info: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-XD05 1.22-GENERAL (E:) (USB 2.0) I 22:10:46 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 BD-RE XL! I 22:11:11 Operation Started! I 22:11:11 Source File: xyz.iso I 22:11:11 Source File Sectors: 24,376,672 (MODE1/2048) I 22:11:11 Source File Size: 49,923,424,256 bytes I 22:11:11 Source File Volume Identifier: xxx I 22:11:11 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 48EF58BB0173F3F1 I 22:11:11 Source File Application Identifier: ImgBurn v2.5.8.0 I 22:11:11 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 22:11:11 Source File File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 22:11:11 Destination Device: [0:0:0] PIONEER BD-RW BDR-XD05 1.22 (E:) (USB) I 22:11:11 Destination Media Type: BD-R (Disc ID: VERBAT-IMf-000) I 22:11:11 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x I 22:11:11 Destination Media Sectors: 24,438,784 I 22:11:11 Write Mode: BD I 22:11:11 Write Type: DAO I 22:11:11 Write Speed: 4x I 22:11:11 Hardware Defect Management Active: No I 22:11:11 BD-R Verify Not Required: Yes I 22:11:11 Link Size: Auto I 22:11:11 Lock Volume: Yes I 22:11:11 Test Mode: No I 22:11:11 OPC: No I 22:11:11 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 22:11:11 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 17,980 KB/s (4x) I 22:11:11 Advanced Settings - Optimal Writing Speed: No I 22:11:12 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB) I 22:11:12 Writing LeadIn... I 22:11:41 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 24376671) I 22:11:41 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 24376671) I 22:11:41 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 12219391) I 22:37:08 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 12219392 - 24376671) I 23:25:10 Synchronising Cache... I 23:25:11 Closing Track... I 23:25:12 Finalising Disc... I 23:25:30 Exporting Graph Data... I 23:25:30 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PIONEER_BD-RW_BDR-XD05_1.22_FRIDAY-JULY-11-2025_10-11_PM_VERBAT-IMf-000_4x.ibg I 23:25:30 Export Successfully Completed! I 23:25:30 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 01:14:19 I 23:25:30 Average Write Rate: 11,060 KiB/s (2.5x) - Maximum Write Rate: 17,632 KiB/s (4.0x) I 23:25:30 Cycling Tray before Verify... W 23:26:03 Waiting for device to become ready... I 23:26:04 Device Ready! I 23:26:05 Operation Started! I 23:26:05 Source Device: [0:0:0] PIONEER BD-RW BDR-XD05 1.22 (E:) (USB) I 23:26:05 Source Media Type: BD-R (Disc ID: VERBAT-IMf-000) I 23:26:05 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 6x I 23:26:05 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x I 23:26:05 Source Media Sectors: 24,376,672 I 23:26:05 Source Media Size: 49,923,424,256 bytes I 23:26:05 Image File: xyz.iso I 23:26:05 Image File Sectors: 24,376,672 (MODE1/2048) I 23:26:05 Image File Size: 49,923,424,256 bytes I 23:26:05 Image File Volume Identifier: xxx I 23:26:05 Image File Volume Set Identifier: 48EF58BB0173F3F1 I 23:26:05 Image File Application Identifier: ImgBurn v2.5.8.0 I 23:26:05 Image File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 23:26:05 Image File File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 23:26:05 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAX I 23:26:06 Read Speed - Effective: 2.5x - 6x I 23:26:06 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 24376671) I 23:26:06 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 24376671) I 23:26:06 Verifying Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 12219391) I 23:47:01 Verifying Layer 1... (LBA: 12219392 - 24376671) W 23:47:10 Failed to Read Sectors 12221312 - 12221343 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 23:47:15 Failed to Read Sector 12221312 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 23:47:15 Sector 12221312 maps to File: \BDMV\STREAM\00025.m2ts W 23:50:21 Retrying (1)... W 23:50:26 Retry Failed - Reason: Positioning Error Detected by Read of Medium W 23:52:16 Retrying (2)... W 23:52:20 Retry Failed - Reason: Positioning Error Detected by Read of Medium W 23:52:23 Retrying (3)... W 23:52:28 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 23:52:41 Failed to Read Sector 12221312 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 23:52:41 Sector 12221312 maps to File: \BDMV\STREAM\00025.m2ts I 00:38:54 Exporting Graph Data... I 00:38:54 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PIONEER_BD-RW_BDR-XD05_1.22_FRIDAY-JULY-11-2025_10-11_PM_VERBAT-IMf-000_4x.ibg I 00:38:54 Export Successfully Completed! I 00:38:54 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 01:12:48 I 00:38:54 Average Verify Rate: 11,166 KiB/s (2.5x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 27,715 KiB/s (6.3x)