That to me is a sign the drive / how it is connected / to what it is connected is not playing nice getting stuck and not reporting back properly.
U woud think its not reporting back proper because of an SATA 2 onboard to device conflict. Well to some degree yes, i had move over my silicon pci from my old rig to my new rig to make fully use of that drive. For one i couldnt use bitset using onboard sata2. But, when it comes down to writing discs the quality was the same . Wheiter i used onboard or pci sata, thus no improvements.
I totaly agree whit ya no question about it.
Wouldnt u rather advise someone to check and dubble check systems drivers first before doing an drastical system re-install in that order!?
In my case reinstall a system is a TOTALL WASTE OF TIME,
1. Just did installed the system a week or so ago and fine tuned/tweaked it.
2.if it were trully an corrupt system i wouldnt be able to write/burn near to perfect quality single layers. Yes near perfect no complaints there wotsoever
3.Duals Failed most of the time on 2 systems!!
lol, thats the first thing i did bEfore i installed anything, is to setup bios propperly. And yes sata is not set to RAID but IDE since i dont have mirrored drives of the same brand size etc...
But, to anyboddy who reads this and using the same pci-sata2 silicon35xx chipset. from my experience, i woud recommend (for once) the m$ drivers for that card over the silicon onsite drivers this time. I noticed considerable quality improvements using M$ drivers.
It doesnt make sense why some one shoudlnt make use of the drivers from the manufacture where the pci card is build!
But i only can speak for single layer i tested as iam out of dual layers after this verbatim farse.
Still, i doubt i woud have wrote/burn good quality Duals out of that misserable BATCH of verbatims mate. Even whit m$ drivers.
Time will tell,
u sure verbatim single layer still good?