Odd behaviour when formatting BD-RE

[Vanbursta]

Well I managed to get a workaround for the Volume ID, but now I've run into another problem. I am trying to full format some BD-RE disks and imgburn hangs my PC at 99%, I left it for 8 hours on 99% and it didn't get any further, I had to physically shut down the PC. Odd thing is I have tried the same with Power2Go 7 and it completes the (full) format in about 40 minutes. Firstly I thought it might be my drive, but imgburn does the same on another PC with a BD drive. I have read the double layer FAQs (although these are single layer 2.3x BD-REs) and am not sure that the BD-REs I am using are any good, they are shown in Imgburn as CMCMAG V3 2.3x, I have successfully erased a disk using p2g7 then used imgburn to burn data to it and the verify completed successfully and they work in 4 different BD drives, anybody have any thoughts? Should I just bin the disks or is there something I am missing in Imgburn which would explain this?

Edited May 23, 2012 by Vanbursta

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Other programs may handle formatting differently. You can't really do a direct comparison between them.

 

If ImgBurn hasn't even got to the 'Zeroing Sectors' phase, the drive is still in complete control of the format. By that I mean ImgBurn has issued the 'format' command and the drive goes off and does its thing.

 

All ImgBurn then does is provide basic feedback on % complete - based on what the drive reports.

 

Copy + paste where you're up to from the log window please.