ImgBurn Hangs/Freezes

[Mack]

Help, Help!!

 

This is most likely not a bug in the software but I can't for the life of me, figure out what or why it happens. I burn backups of my current 2006 and 07 Movie DVD's with DVD Encryptor. About every 5th or 7th different DVD I burn, the software hangs and freezes. The rest of the time it works fine. When it hangs its always at 21% complete. I have tried different burn speed settings and usually I include the Verify option which works only when I get complete burn discs, of course.

 

So today I moved on to ImgBurn thinking that this software is a few years newer and will eliminate the DVDD problem. Wrong again. Same thing happened with the same settings and at the same point of burn (21%) during the writing phase. After more than an hour at this stage it finally gives me a new error box.

I/O Error (semaphore timeout) but I don't think that is the problem. Here is a typical log.

 

Thanks much for the help and insights in advance.

Mack

 

I 20:45:04 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started!

I 20:45:04 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)

I 20:45:04 Total Physical Memory: 1,039,892 KB - Available: 523,860 KB

W 20:45:04 Drive E:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size.

I 20:45:04 Initialising SPTI...

I 20:45:04 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 20:45:04 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD

[blutach]

I 20:46:23 Destination Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: AML-001-00) (Speeds: 1x, 2x, 4x)

Get better disks. These are pure crap. We recommend Verbatims or Taiyo Yudens only.

 

I 20:46:23 Destination Device: [1:1:0] DVDRW IDE1008 0055 (H:) (ATA)

Update your firmware - see http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=1727 (0060 is the latest)

 

I 20:46:23 Write Speed: MAX

Slow down - it's not a race.

 

Regards

[Mack]

I 20:46:23 Destination Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: AML-001-00) (Speeds: 1x, 2x, 4x)

Get better disks. These are pure crap. We recommend Verbatims or Taiyo Yudens only.

 

I 20:46:23 Destination Device: [1:1:0] DVDRW IDE1008 0055 (H:) (ATA)

Update your firmware - see http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=1727 (0060 is the latest)

 

I 20:46:23 Write Speed: MAX

Slow down - it's not a race.

 

Regards

 

Thanks Les for the advise. I will do these things.

 

I am quite new to this. Because the first 10 or so worked I didn't think the media could be an issue. I did think about the firmware update but didn't even know what manfg brand I had for DVDR. I did request the speed to be 4 but apparently it did not take or save.

 

thanks again.

Mack

[mmalves]

I 22:45:19 Average Write Rate: 138 KB/s (0.1x) - Maximum Write Rate: 1,479 KB/s (1.1x)

Please have a look at this post from the FAQ thread.