spongebob128 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 The Sony Optiarc BD-5300S 1.04 does not seem to like "with full certification" and enabling "spare areas". It basically goes to "erasing 99%" and stays there forever (or at least overnight). If you disable "spare areas" the drive seems to disable "full certification" by the drive and completes quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Have you tried that with various BD-RE? All with different dyes/MIDs? If it's a generic issue, contact Sony/Optiarc and get them to fix it in the next firmware release. I'm afraid I don't have that drive, nor do I intend on buying one - I already have the true LiteOn iHBS112 that it's based on. Maybe you could crossflash it to the LiteOn models firmware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebob128 Posted June 10, 2011 Author Share Posted June 10, 2011 Have you tried that with various BD-RE? All with different dyes/MIDs? If it's a generic issue, contact Sony/Optiarc and get them to fix it in the next firmware release. I'm afraid I don't have that drive, nor do I intend on buying one - I already have the true LiteOn iHBS112 that it's based on. Maybe you could crossflash it to the LiteOn models firmware? I think it is just a firmware issue. I think I have seen it with all the different BD-RE's I have: SONY-ES1-002 (Sony), MEI-T01-001 (Sony DL), Ritech-RW1-001 ("TDK" (returned all but one I opened)). This is mostly a heads up for people with this drive. Because if one wants to enable "spare areas", then just uncheck "Full Certification" and leave "Properly Formatted" on and it formats fine. Going to "With Spare Areas" and "Minimum Format Size" seems to have help improve the LDC/BIS Scan for a BD-RE DL I have (Max BIS now 8). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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