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Ok, thanks all. The writing went well and now it seems that all's working as it should.

Updated the firmware to A105 and now it's actually writing. Better not celebrate yet and the auto speed set it doing only around 2.8x or 2.4x (I'm using 4x writer and 8x media) but still a great deal better

Ok, another attempt: For 3 minutes it's "Setting L0 Data Zone Capacity..." and then I get a popup with: -- I/O Error! Device: [1:0:0] HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA4163B A102 (G:) (ATA) ScsiStatus: 0x02 Interpretation: Check Condition CDB: BF 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 0C 00 00 Interpretation: Send DVD Structure - DVD+R DL Boundary Information Sense Area: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 10 35 2D 00 0E 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Interpretation: Write Error -- I click cancel and get: -- I/O Error! Device: [1:0:0] HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA4163B A102 (G:) (ATA) ScsiStatus: 0x02 Interpretation: Check Condition CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 20 00 Interpretation: Write (10) - Sectors: 21 - 63 Sense Area: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 10 2A 00 00 0E 21 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Interpretation: Invalid Address For Write -- I click cancel again and it starts first "Synchronising Cache..." and then "Closing Track..." which never gets anywhere. It won't save. It obviously never writes anything on the DVD because it's still empty when I retry. DVD door won't open and closing down ImgBurn (or the writer) is a pain (Cannot the forced shutdown be implemented in the software in case of hangups such as this?). log when I have to finally force it to close but here's a log so far: I 22:18:45 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started! I 22:18:45 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (6.0, Build 6000) I 22:18:45 Total Physical Memory: 2 095 744 KB - Available: 1 224 544 KB I 22:18:45 Initialising SPTI... I 22:18:45 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 22:18:45 Found 1 DVD

It's almost empty and the error messages I got aren't there. Probably because the program would never close. I have to try again and copy/paste the errors.

Ok folks, any help here would be appreciated. I've tried to burn some DVD9 movie DVD's on my LG GSA-4163B writer on Verbatim DVD+R DL 8X media (Advanced AZO or whatever) with no success. First I tried to do it with Nero (updated to latest version too) that has so far served all my SL and CD recording needs without ever failing but it simply wouldn't do it. First tried burning directly Movie DVD with fils in VIDEO_TS but got a bunch of errors. Then did an image but that totally froze apps in my Vista 32bit to point where I had to restart. Found some help on Afterdawn forums that pointed me to this software as a solution to what Nero cannot do. First tried to burn the image I did with Nero but was warned about this layer splitting data that was missing and after reading some guides, I decided to master again with ImgBurn. I tried to burn the result of remastering with no success. First ImgBurn spent couple of minutes supposedly reading the layer data and then I got twenty (20) I/O errors about bad write address or something similar. After that it was "finalizing DVD" for 15 minutes and all my attempts to close the software were greeted by "We got it the first time"-messages. Well, obviously it didn't (btw, it's very irritating to put that kind of messages in a piece of sw that freezes up like any other ). DVD drive wouldn't open, Task Manager couldn't kill the app and so on... After a while ImgBurn died away and I decided to check if my media was still unburned but was stuck in the point where the drives were supposed to be found. ImgBurn found no drives and opening of Win Explorer supported that fact by getting completely frozen. After 15 minutes or so I finally powered down as nothing was responding. Had to do one more soft boot too to get everything up and running again. Any clues? I've had no problems with this PC and Vista installation before, how can an attempt to burn DVD9 mess it up so completely? The writer should be good, the media is the one that they recommend here (How could it be that only one media and only some drives, all certified for DL DVD+R, worked anyway?). I could buy a new drive too if you think that'd help. What would be good brand?