Sony Firmware

[bob465]

Curious problem.

Upgraded my Sony (BenQ) DRU-810A firmware to 1.0D and it started creating consistent coasters (DL+R) with Imgburn 2.1.0.0. (something about unknown sector addresses as I recall ,,,, using PGCEdit to set the layer break) so I RMAed it thinking that there was a problem with the burner itself. Sony sent me a (Samsung) DRU-830A which I promptly upgraded to firmware SS23. The SAME exact problem with Imgburn on that burner! (Sony sent me a new one) ..and yet I could fill the same branded (Ritek) DL+R media with data files using Nero ,,, error free on the 830A (SS23).

 

Went back to SS22 and Imgburn works fine with PGCEdit generated ISOs now! What gives? Is Sony monkeying around with their latest firmware versions?

 

Bob

[LIGHTNING UK!]

It really helps if we can see proper ImgBurn logs rather than being told 'roughly' what the error was.

 

Nero might be using the 'Incremental' write type rather than 'DAO'. Perhaps your Samsung works better on the cheapo Ritek DL discs with that?

 

You can tell ImgBurn to use Incremental in the settings.

[bob465]

It really helps if we can see proper ImgBurn logs rather than being told 'roughly' what the error was.

 

Nero might be using the 'Incremental' write type rather than 'DAO'. Perhaps your Samsung works better on the cheapo Ritek DL discs with that?

 

You can tell ImgBurn to use Incremental in the settings.

 

Thanks for the tip LUK.

Sorry about not providing a log.

 

What seems to've been happening is that I've got 7 HDDs and the burner on this system (3GhzP4, ASUS P4C800-E, 2x512 Geil) with the burner as the master on IDE channel 1 and an HDD as the slave (rest on IDE2, Intel serials and Promise serials/PATA).

 

Reconfigured with ONLY the burner on IDE1 (no slave) and the 830A (Sammy) is consistently error free now whereas a Pioneer 111D didn't have a problem either way ...

 

Hate them coasters ;-)

 

Thanks again and oh BTW, what is the actual penalty for incremental vs DAO if any other than what I would guess is laser efficiency in terms of burn time?

 

Bob