fpefpe Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 (edited) Life Record Count I seened this line for cd/dvd and blu-ray discs in the log --- what is it counting? Edited November 17, 2021 by fpefpe
LIGHTNING UK! Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 I would assume it's the number of discs it has burnt.
fpefpe Posted November 17, 2021 Author Posted November 17, 2021 Yes, that would seem to be the case, but as the text/line appears in the log: I 16:29:20 CD/DVD Life Record Count: 31 - CD/DVD Record Count: 3 I 16:29:20 BD Life Record Count: 10 - BD Record Count: 3 Is there some "upper limit" to how may disc can be "burned"
dbminter Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 That value may be individualistic to the brand of drive. Not all drives support keeping a burn record count. So, it may be a 2 digit or 3 digit value, depending on how the manufacturer implemented the feature.
fpefpe Posted November 18, 2021 Author Posted November 18, 2021 so just to confim, Imgburn does NOT have any sort of limit on how many disc it will burn?
dbminter Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 Oh, you're concerned that the record count will somehow trigger a finite number of burns limitation? No. The record count just keeps track of how many discs the drive has burned. While there is a finite number of discs a drive will burn before it dies, and that varies based on how long the drive will last and how hard it's been used, it has nothing to do with the record count. There's no arbitrary limit that is triggered by the record count where a drive will stop burning discs. And ImgBurn doesn't care what the record count is beyond displaying it. It's been a long time since I've seen a record count returned by ImgBurn on a drive I've had. I had even forgotten it was a feature. It was that long ago.
LIGHTNING UK! Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 If my memory serves me correctly, that info is specific to LiteOn drives. Some tool available for their drives used to display it, I found out where it got that info from and then implemented the same command within ImgBurn so I could display it in the log (just as an FYI type entry). As db said, it's not an internal count that ImgBurn is performing and there's no limit of any sort imposed by the program.
dbminter Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 It probably is LiteOn specific. I haven't used LiteOn in about a decade, which is about how long ago I remember last encountering record count.
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