pjDVD Posted October 9, 2011 Posted October 9, 2011 I'm using a Nimbie and soon simultaneously a Primera to read a multitude of data DVDs into multiple hard drive arrays. After getting irritated at the error rate reading DVDS, and having to be at the ImgBurn PC to force it to contine, I've found a monitoring method that seems to overcome ImgBurn's lack of fully automatic reading of discs. I've been using a combination of TightVNC on the PC connected to the Nimbie, and Mocha VNC as an app on my iPad, to monitor the PC running ImgBurn. Using this method I don't have to go upstairs or whatever to check if I have to Cancel a DVD read due to a seek or read error (and soon thereafter also tell it to delete the current ISO file). Instead I check every half hour or so from the couch while watching a football game (Go Pack!). If it's stuck, I just press the appropriate onscreen ImgBurn buttons via my VNC app on the iPad windowing into the ImgBurn PC. Just figured this out earlier today, and am excited to start using it to monitor two PCs running ImgBurn while getting work/fun done on another PC or iPad. If anybody knows of a way to setup ImgBurn to automatically handle and bypass errors reading DVDs on its own - please let me know.
mmalves Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 (...) while getting work/fun done on another PC or iPad. Ah, you mean pr0n? Anyway, look in Tools -> Settings -> Read tab, pages 1 and 2, e.g. lowering the number of Software Retries and enabling the Ignore Read Errors option. As for deleting the incomplete ISO image, the option is Delete Incomplete Files in the Events tab: set to Yes and incomplete images will always be deleted.
pjDVD Posted October 10, 2011 Author Posted October 10, 2011 <clip> Anyway, look in Tools -> Settings -> Read tab, pages 1 and 2, e.g. lowering the number of Software Retries and enabling the Ignore Read Errors option. As for deleting the incomplete ISO image, the option is Delete Incomplete Files in the Events tab: set to Yes and incomplete images will always be deleted. <clip> Thanks for your recommendations. They almost took care of the problem. The Delete Incomplete Files worked a charm, making that manual intervention unnecessary. I had already lowered the Software Retried down to 10 but lowered it further ito 1 then to 0. It seems to make no difference. Once there's a soft read error it rarely goes away by more reads. Just takes a bit less time while sitting and spinning. Telling the app to Ignore Read Errors means it still equentially reads all sectors. Since my errors seem to involve many sectors of a file, i.e. thousands, the resulting cumulative read speed is less than 0.1X when I finally cancelled a read after eating lunch. I guess I'm looking for a modification to the SW to just skip to the next file rather than continue reading sequential sectors... But that would require ugly program logic to handle, since the ISO image is basically a read the disk from beginning to end procedure. Although, I would hazard a guess that most all DVDs have no file fragmentation, therefore the next file would tend to always be a straight-ahead jump of X sectors. Then again, if the backup DVD was made from a fragmented drive already I'm not sure how the files are actually laid down on the disk... Anyway, thanks for the help!
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