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Well its an old burner so it only writes at max 2.4x. But I guess you are right. It doesn't like the new 003's. But I bought them because I heard that verbatim had outsourced the 2.4x dl to india and some ppl had gotten bad results.. Anyway to ease my life I have ordered a Pioneer 112D now anyway. And as for the settings thing. I had to put the link size at 0 for the burner to burn the low quality media. Thanks for the help anyway.

So first let me post a log of one of many sucessfull burns with low quality media (MediaRange 2.4x RICOHJPN-D01-67). I 00:03:49 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started! I 00:03:49 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 00:03:49 Total Physical Memory: 1,047,280 KB - Available: 506,928 KB I 00:03:49 Initialising SPTI... I 00:03:49 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 00:03:49 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD±RW! I 01:05:18 Operation Started! I 01:05:18 Source File: D:\Images\Xbox 360\ptc-me.iso I 01:05:18 Source File Sectors: 3,825,924 (MODE1/2048) I 01:05:18 Source File Size: 7,835,492,352 bytes I 01:05:18 Source File Volume Identifier: XGD2DVD_NTSC I 01:05:18 Source File Implementation Identifier: Sonic Scenarist 3.1 I 01:05:18 Source File File System(s): ISO9660; UDF (1.02) I 01:05:18 Destination Device: [1:0:0] BENQ DVD DD DW1620 B7W9 (E:) (ATA) I 01:05:18 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: RICOHJPN-D01-67) (Speeds: 2.4x) I 01:05:18 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824 I 01:05:18 Write Mode: DVD I 01:05:18 Write Type: DAO I 01:05:18 Write Speed: 1x I 01:05:18 Link Size: 0 I 01:05:18 Test Mode: No I 01:05:18 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 01:05:18 User Specified L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1,913,760 I 01:05:20 Filling Buffer... (256 MB) I 01:05:31 Writing LeadIn... I 01:05:42 Writing Image... (LBA: 0 - 3825923) I 01:05:42 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1913759) I 01:25:47 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 1913760 - 3825923) I 01:46:06 Synchronising Cache... I 01:46:07 Closing Track... I 01:46:12 Finalising Disc... I 01:47:55 Image MD5: 43b72c33e5653357eeac37283dd481ed I 01:47:56 Exporting Graph Data... I 01:47:56 Graph Data File: C:\Program Files\ImgBurn\BENQ DVD DD DW1620 B7W9 DEN-27-NOVEMBER-2007 01-05 RICOHJPN-D01-67 1x.ibg I 01:47:56 Export Successfully Completed! I 01:47:56 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:42:37 I 01:47:56 Average Write Rate: 3,156 KB/s (2.3x) - Maximum Write Rate: 3,385 KB/s (2.4x) I 01:47:56 Cycling Tray before Verify... W 01:48:11 Waiting for device to become ready... I 01:48:22 Device Ready! I 01:48:23 Operation Started! I 01:48:23 Source Device: [1:0:0] BENQ DVD DD DW1620 B7W9 (E:) (ATA) I 01:48:23 Source Media Type: DVD+R DL (Book Type: DVD-ROM) (Disc ID: RICOHJPN-D01-67) I 01:48:23 Image File: D:\Images\Xbox 360\ptc-me.iso I 01:48:23 Image File Sectors: 3,825,924 (MODE1/2048) I 01:48:23 Image File Size: 7,835,492,352 bytes I 01:48:23 Image File Volume Identifier: XGD2DVD_NTSC I 01:48:23 Image File Implementation Identifier: Sonic Scenarist 3.1 I 01:48:23 Image File File System(s): ISO9660; UDF (1.02) I 01:48:23 Verifying Sectors... (LBA: 0 - 3825923) I 01:48:23 Verifying Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1913759) I 01:56:55 Verifying Layer 1... (LBA: 1913760 - 3825923) I 02:05:22 Device MD5: 43b72c33e5653357eeac37283dd481ed I 02:05:22 Device (Padded) MD5: 120c6bd8b3c46490e5949db86d062ad3 I 02:05:22 Image MD5: 43b72c33e5653357eeac37283dd481ed I 02:05:22 Exporting Graph Data... I 02:05:22 Graph Data File: C:\Program Files\ImgBurn\BENQ DVD DD DW1620 B7W9 DEN-27-NOVEMBER-2007 01-05 RICOHJPN-D01-67 1x.ibg I 02:05:22 Export Successfully Completed! I 02:05:22 File Successfully Deleted: D:\Images\Xbox 360\ptc-me.iso I 02:05:22 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:16:59 I 02:05:22 Average Verify Rate: 7,516 KB/s (5.4x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 10,817 KB/s (7.8x) So Im useing DAO with link size 0, wth is that anyway ?, on these since they where a little fuzzy. Max speed 1x wich it doesn't obey btw 2.4x is the only supported speed I guess. So I was happily burning along with these cheap DL disks knowing that they might not work in a few months or whatever. So I got some verbatims 8x made in singapore (MKM-003-00). So I figured since I never had any problems burning verbs before it would work like a charm. I 22:32:18 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started! I 22:32:18 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 22:32:18 Total Physical Memory: 1,047,280 KB - Available: 483,688 KB I 22:32:18 Initialising SPTI... I 22:32:18 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 22:32:18 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD±RW! *Test Burn cut out* I 23:16:08 Operation Started! I 23:16:08 Source File: D:\Images\ptc-me.iso I 23:16:08 Source File Sectors: 3,825,924 (MODE1/2048) I 23:16:08 Source File Size: 7,835,492,352 bytes I 23:16:08 Source File Volume Identifier: XGD2DVD_NTSC I 23:16:08 Source File Implementation Identifier: Sonic Scenarist 3.1 I 23:16:08 Source File File System(s): ISO9660; UDF (1.02) I 23:16:08 Destination Device: [1:0:0] BENQ DVD DD DW1620 B7W9 (E:) (ATA) I 23:16:08 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: MKM-003-00) (Speeds: 2.4x) I 23:16:08 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824 I 23:16:08 Write Mode: DVD I 23:16:08 Write Type: DAO I 23:16:08 Write Speed: 2.4x I 23:16:08 Link Size: Auto I 23:16:08 Test Mode: No I 23:16:08 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 23:16:20 User Specified L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1,913,760 I 23:16:21 Filling Buffer... (256 MB) I 23:16:35 Writing LeadIn... W 23:17:24 Failed to Write Sectors 0 - 15 - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 23:17:24 Retrying (1 of 10)... I 23:17:41 Abort Request Acknowledged W 23:18:11 Retry Failed - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 23:18:11 Retrying (2 of 10)... W 23:18:59 Retry Failed - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 23:18:59 Retrying (3 of 10)... W 23:19:48 Retry Failed - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 23:19:48 Retrying (4 of 10)... W 23:20:35 Retry Failed - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 23:20:35 Retrying (5 of 10)... W 23:21:14 Retry Failed - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 23:21:14 Retrying (6 of 10)... W 23:22:02 Retry Failed - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 23:22:02 Retrying (7 of 10)... W 23:22:38 Retry Failed - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 23:22:38 Retrying (8 of 10)... W 23:23:15 Retry Failed - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 23:23:15 Retrying (9 of 10)... W 23:23:54 Retry Failed - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 23:23:54 Retrying (10 of 10)... W 23:24:17 Retry Failed - Power Calibration Area Is Full E 23:41:19 Failed to Write Sectors 0 - 15 - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In I 23:41:19 Synchronising Cache... I 23:41:20 Closing Track... I 23:41:21 Finalising Disc... E 23:41:22 Finalise Disc Failed! - Reason: Session Fixation Error - Incomplete Track in Session I 23:41:22 Finalising Disc (Last Attempt!)... E 23:41:22 Finalise Disc Failed! - Reason: Session Fixation Error - Incomplete Track in Session E 23:41:22 Failed to Write Image! E 23:41:30 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:25:14 So session fix... is pretty standard either DVD media or burner is fucked error, or so I have gathered. But prior disc burns wich I don't have logs for since it hanged.. I had choppy burning that stopped at 50% and hanged twice. And one of those times I got an error that it couldn't write 40 sectors in the 2 million range. Then it went to session fix error. I should mention that the new verbatims where the 8x and I have prior used the 2.4x (singapore not india), wich worked. But there is nothing I can do about that now anyway. My question is that if the burner is dying why did the low quality media work ? I got a burn failed with a verb before I burned the last rico disk. And is it possible that the verbatims where bad ? So why would it go from choppy, burn a little and then stop over and over, and then to session fix error ? And finally the big question. What settings should I use ? Write Type ? Link size ? What is it ? I/O transfer length ? And what does it matter with "SPTI - Use 'CdRom' class" ? And any other setting you might think of. Will all my troubles go away if I buy a Pioneer 112D ?