What is my DVD Drive??

[Poefue]

Hello all. I'm sorda new at burning so this question might be newbish. I was using DVD decrypter to do my 360 backups and did about 10 successful till I read that Imgburn was the best. So I download IMGBurn and do a burn of oblivion, stops at 11% and says incompatiable media. I try a 2nd and 3rd time same error so I stop as I wasted a few bucks. I read the forums alittle and saw I had to set my booktyping, I go to click the book but I do not see my drive listed. Here is what ImgBurn says my drive is in Destination,

I guess my question is when I click on Change Book Type, which of the drives should I pick. I know my drive can burn backups because I burnt a few so far. I have a Dell XPS M1710 if that helps anybody out. As far as just setting the book type to dvd+r dl, is there anything else I need to change, say laybreak like in DVDDecrypter? Thanks in advance guys!!

[Poefue]

Ok I found the answer to my own question. It's made by Samsung. I'm going to do a test and burn Crackdown to Verbatim DVD+R DL and see how it goes. I'm having a bad feeling about it though because when I go to set my Book Type and pick Samsung and Pick DVD+R DL the settings says Unknown even when I hit the refresh button. Any reason for that. I will let you guys know how my burn goes and if it goes bad I will post my log, thanks again.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

The booktype stuff is done automatically on samsung drives - since v2.2.0.0 or so I believe.

[mmalves]

What's your drive's firmware version? The latest is DE04 and can be found here.

[Poefue]

What's your drive's firmware version? The latest is DE04 and can be found here.

Thanks for that link MMALVES, I'm downloading it now and hope it helps me out, I've lost 4 verbatims in a row and want to cry now.

[Poefue]

Ok I updated my firm ware and try to burn a backup that I know that works and here is what I've got for the 5th time. I was using a crappy media called melody before and had no problems from it and I thought I would upgrade to Verbatim DVD+R DL but I have unsuccessfully burned a backup with Verbatim yet. Here is my log.

 

I 06:00:37 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started!

I 06:00:37 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)

I 06:00:37 Total Physical Memory: 2,095,504 KB - Available: 1,638,876 KB

W 06:00:37 Drive F:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size.

I 06:00:37 Initialising SPTI...

I 06:00:37 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 06:00:37 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD?RW!

I 06:03:47 Operation Started!

I 06:03:47 Source File: H:\Crackdown.USA.XBOX360-RANT\rant-crackdown.dvd

I 06:03:47 Source File Sectors: 3,697,696 (MODE1/2048)

I 06:03:47 Source File Size: 7,572,881,408 bytes

I 06:03:47 Source File File System(s): None

I 06:03:47 Destination Device: [1:0:0] TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L532B DE04 (D:) (ATA)

I 06:03:47 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: MKM-001-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x)

I 06:03:47 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824

I 06:03:47 Write Mode: DVD

I 06:03:47 Write Type: DAO

I 06:03:47 Write Speed: 2.4x

I 06:03:47 Link Size: Auto

I 06:03:47 Test Mode: No

I 06:03:47 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 06:03:47 User Specified L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1,913,760

I 06:03:59 Filling Buffer... (40 MB)

I 06:04:01 Writing LeadIn...

I 06:04:03 Writing Image... (LBA: 0 - 3697695)

I 06:04:03 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1913759)

W 06:08:47 Failed to Write Sectors 467232 - 467263 - Write Error

W 06:08:47 Retrying (1 of 20)...

W 06:08:47 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format

W 06:08:54 Retrying (23)...

W 06:08:54 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format

E 06:09:00 Failed to Write Sectors 467232 - 467263 - Write Error

I 06:09:00 Synchronising Cache...

I 06:09:01 Closing Track...

E 06:09:02 Close Track Failed! - Reason: Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format

I 06:09:02 Closing Track (Last Attempt!)...

E 06:09:02 Close Track Failed! - Reason: Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format

I 06:09:02 Finalising Disc...

E 06:09:03 Finalise Disc Failed! - Reason: Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format

I 06:09:03 Finalising Disc (Last Attempt!)...

E 06:09:03 Finalise Disc Failed! - Reason: Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format

E 06:09:03 Failed to Write Image!

E 06:09:03 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:05:16

I 06:09:03 Average Write Rate: 3,156 KB/s (2.3x) - Maximum Write Rate: 3,499 KB/s (2.5x)

 

I cut out the 22 retrys in the middle of the log since it said the same thing. Any idea what it could be. I know my drive can burn Dual layer as I have done a few on it. It's just making me sad cause I got 5 verbatim coasters now, lol. Thanks in advance.

[dontasciime]

return drive under warranty tell them it's failing to write to very expensive quality media

 

Maybe try a lens cleaner.

[Poefue]

return drive under warranty tell them it's failing to write to very expensive quality media

 

Maybe try a lens cleaner.

I guess I'm going to have to. I tried one more time with a backup that I burnt before and boom, fails at 11% like all the rest do.

[chewy]

laptop drives don't hold up well or burn DL for that matter

[dontasciime]

was that a laptop drive like.

 

Seem to remember seeing that drive fail or someone else with similar woes may have been another make of drive you get so many rubbish ones.

[chewy]

a google search for that drive yields lots of problems, dell doesn't help much either

 

LG and Samsung make good standard drives but their oem's for laptops seem to have more than their share of problems

 

Philips is another one

Edited April 26, 2007 by chewy