Can not burn dual layer Bluray disks no matter what I try.

[Wookie Groomer]

Hello,

 

I have been using IMGBurn for a while now and love it. It has never failed me. Recently I have started using Dual Layer Bluray media namely Verbatims.

 

I'll start from the beginning...

 

I recently purchased an LG GGW-H20L drive and a handful of BD25 media. I have had absolutely no issues burning DVD DL or Bluray BD25 disks, it was perfect. I bought a handful of Verbatim DL BD50's for a special "project" I needed to archive and managed to burn one good disk and the remaining 3 Verbatims went in the garbage because I constantly got the power calibration error. I tried a combination of Nero and IMGBurn after the first one failed. So I thought it was the media and bought Sony branded media and those failed as well with the same errors so 5 DL BD50's in the garbage. So I thought it was my drive and bought a Pioneer BDR-203 and a handful of Bluray DL Sony's. The fist one I tried burned and plays back fine. All consecutive attempts to burn have failed just like the other drive.

 

I defragmented my drive, I increased the buffer to 512MB and cleaned of as much data as I could to free up space. I even shut down every possible program to leave IMGBurn to do it's business with any other apps running. Nothing I do will allow be to simply burn a dual layer disk. Reading through the site a little I see the cure all for every problem is to simply buy Verbatim but I have thrown out a sizable amount of them as well as Sony. I have attached a screen cap of the message IMBBurn displays. Is there anything at all that could cause a freaky problem like this?

[mmalves]

Power calibration errors are usually due to an incompatibility/lack of support between the burner and the media used. We've seen similar problems with people trying to burn BD-RE DL discs too.

 

From our tests we've found Verbatim BluRay media to be the best, sometimes it was the only one that worked, but we don't burn a lot of BluRay discs. From what you've said I think you should complain to LG, Pioneer, Verbatim, Sony and whoever else you bought stuff from because they're doing a crappy job with their products.

 

As for media advice, try posting at CDFreaks, AVSForum or similar boards and you might get more replies