DavidC Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 1st post and a query I have been using imgburn for some time and have never had any issues before This post is not, I think, a problem with imgburn I have some old CDR's - I bought a cake (100) from DABS some years ago and have never, until now, had a problem They are by Discplanet, about 30 left When I insert a blank I get the following messages in the status bar just after the log states 'Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM!' Device not ready (logical unit is in process of becoming ready) Device not ready (No reference point found) The 'Discovery' window (RHS) is just 'greyed out' I then close imgburn DVD's seem fine - all Verbatim (Taiwan) I attache the log file, but it dosn't show anything 'cos nothing has happened Bad CD's or............ ; //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.5.2.0 - Log ; Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 13:47:38 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 13:18:16 ImgBurn Version 2.5.2.0 started! I 13:18:16 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (6.0, Build 6002 : Service Pack 2) I 13:18:16 Total Physical Memory: 3,405,948 KB - Available: 2,473,440 KB I 13:18:17 Initialising SPTI... I 13:18:17 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 13:18:22 -> Drive 1 - Info: LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S 9L08 (D:) (ATA) I 13:18:22 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM! I 13:47:37 Close Request Acknowledged I 13:47:37 Closing Down... I 13:47:38 Shutting down SPTI... I 13:47:38 ImgBurn closed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 The drive seems to be having problems initialising them. Until it can/does, no software will be able to do anything with the disc. Try the newer firmware - http://www.firmwarehq.com/Lite-On/LH-20A1S/files.html Try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc. If they were just cheapo discs in the first place and you got them 'some years ago', they might have just gone bad - at least to a point where they no longer work in your drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidC Posted November 16, 2010 Author Share Posted November 16, 2010 (edited) Firmware updated & 'cleaned' with a TDK CD Audio cleaner (was all I had) Didn't help Oddball though - if I open the tray and turn the blank CD around a bit (like 1/4 turn) it works mostly Edited November 16, 2010 by DavidC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Unless you want to buy another drive and try them in that, I'd just write them off. I certainly wouldn't write anything to them that wasn't 'throw away' material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidC Posted November 16, 2010 Author Share Posted November 16, 2010 I have been using them for 'throw away' - liveCD's for malware cleanup etc, use once & they are obsolete Just bought some Imations from Rymans - they seem to be 'seen' ok (expensive crap) Cue - Bin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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