rich_hard Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 Whenever i'm burning a 7 to 8.5 gigabyte ISO to verbatim DL 8x disks, imgburn 2.5.5.0 gets to around 80% then slows to '0' stops recording, no error messages etc. The drive still whirrs away even louder etc. i have to shut down the computer using the hard reset button (3 seconds). i've now wasted around 20 verbatim disks in the process. i have lots of ram (12gb), a fast processor I7-950. no issues whatsoever with any other programs, just imgburn, this has been going on for a long time now. any suggestions ?
ianymaty Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 Try to burn at other speed if available. A lens cleaning disc might help in that drive. Post a log as the pink box above instructs.
rich_hard Posted February 7, 2011 Author Posted February 7, 2011 Try to burn at other speed if available. A lens cleaning disc might help in that drive. Post a log as the pink box above instructs. i wish i could ianymaty, due to having to har reset it, it doesn't produce a log, graph or anything, just a partly recorded disk which is thrown away and a frustrated user. i've tried settings right down to 2.4x
ianymaty Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 Could you try that drive in another computer to rule out your system config?
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 You should still be able to do copy + paste from the Log window when your system's I/O subsystem has hung itself. In the mean time, a log from just loading the program will do.
rich_hard Posted February 8, 2011 Author Posted February 8, 2011 You should still be able to do copy + paste from the Log window when your system's I/O subsystem has hung itself. In the mean time, a log from just loading the program will do. OK, thanks guys, i'll grab them on the next failure. Those disks don't come cheap.
rich_hard Posted February 10, 2011 Author Posted February 10, 2011 Here is the Log, Graph Data and Screen Grab from today's I/O Error. Just one of a few errors i'm getting on 2 very different computers. log.txt graph.txt
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 What drive is in the other computer? I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about your drive erroring out, I have no control over such things. If you've tried all the supported write speeds, updated the drives firmware to the latest version and are using MKM-001-00 / MKM-003-00 media then you're probably out of luck. Rather than keep spending out on new discs, get yourself an Optiarc 726x drive and give that a go instead. p.s. the stars in your log really weren't necessary.
rich_hard Posted February 10, 2011 Author Posted February 10, 2011 What drive is in the other computer? I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about your drive erroring out, I have no control over such things. If you've tried all the supported write speeds, updated the drives firmware to the latest version and are using MKM-001-00 / MKM-003-00 media then you're probably out of luck. Rather than keep spending out on new discs, get yourself an Optiarc 726x drive and give that a go instead. p.s. the stars in your log really weren't necessary. cheers, might go with your advice and try an optiarc 726x then. i create and burn around 200 dvd's a month, my failures currently stand at 30 good, to 80 bad. P.S. As for the stars, better left starred i say
ianymaty Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 200 dvd's a month, my failures currently stand at 30 good, to 80 bad Ha ha, curious. What math do you use? p.s. As for the stars, just let them where just necessary not all over, we will now though why you put them anyway.
rich_hard Posted February 11, 2011 Author Posted February 11, 2011 Sounded a bit stupid of me I know, I meant the last 110 copies were 80 bad to 30 good. It seems I now have to reset the computer, shut down any non-essential Programs running in the background then place Norton in silent mode. This lowers ram usage down to around 15%. Have wasted only 1 in the last 14 copies. Waiting for the next batch of disks to come in from my wholesaler. Great forum by the way, people discuss things, a real pleasure talking, if only to vent my frustration! Rich
Cynthia Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 It seems I now have to reset the computer, shut down any non-essential Programs running in the background then place Norton in silent mode. This lowers ram usage down to around 15%. Burning is not very RAM demanding. I'm running Norton and to many programs at the same time as I burn and no problems in general with that. Only issue can be if you heavily access the hard disk that the source file(s) is/are located on.
rich_hard Posted February 12, 2011 Author Posted February 12, 2011 seems to work for me cynthia. i would seriously love to use imgburn on the fly, but due to these errors, i lose a lot of disks. this way i'm only losing 1 every 14, to me that's a result.
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