Failed to burn

[jaymac]

Hi trying to get my mate started on dvd burning and tried to burn with img burn .This was a Verbatim RW+ and had been erased previously on my pc the first that came up was disc needs to be formatted clicking on yes brought up needs to be erased then failure .Bring the disc back to my pc and imgburn says the same except it does do a full erase.

This is whatt came upon his and no the file was not copywrited in any way.

Would'nt think it was img burn but any help appreciated

 

01:10:02 Image MD5: 92162a42d86aa2b49121686968c6ab3c

I 01:10:02 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:03

I 01:10:02 Average Write Rate: 13,482 KB/s (89.9x) - Maximum Write Rate: 13,482 KB/s (89.9x)

I 01:10:54 Operation Started!

I 01:10:54 Device: [1:1:0] HP DVD Writer 300n 1.25 (F:) (ATA)

I 01:10:54 Media Type: DVD+RW (Disc ID: MKM-A02-00) (Speeds: 2.4x)

I 01:10:54 Quick Erase: No

I 01:10:54 Erasing Disc...

E 01:10:54 Failed to Erase Disc - Logical Unit Software Write Protected

E 01:10:54 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:00:00

[blutach]

This is a very rare error.

 

You need to check all the usual suspects - the blank disk, DMA, firmware, the cable connection and the drive itself as well as whether your SPTI/ASPI is installed OK.

 

Does this happen on all blanks? Or is it an isolated occurrence?

 

Try with a DVD+R (not RW) and see if it burns OK.

 

Regards

[chewy]

that dvd burner first came out 4 1/2 years ago, that's almost prehistoric

 

rather than waste time and blanks I would suggest a new drive

[chewy]

New laser write strategies for 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD+R and 4x DVD+RW media.

The firmware update will NOT allow the DVD300 drive to write at 8x speeds. The DVD300's maximum recording speed is 4x no matter what recordable DVD media is utilized.

Further support of black CD-R media.

Improvement in readability of certain DVD+RW media.

Improved strategies to increase the number of writes to DVD+RW and CD-RW media.

Other general errors resolved.

 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwar...=en&lang=en

 

nothing to lose trying to update the firmware

[jaymac]

Thanks guys tried the update wont download page not available . As for discs I got no problem with the same ones and have tried different ones on his albeit still Verbatim Rw's. It throws wobblers with both imgburn and ashampoo.Guess he need s to spend some dosh

[dontasciime]

download worked for me

 

I have uploaded it to my rapidshare account if you wanna download it from there

 

Choose free user unless you have an account at rapidshare and wait for the time it says and enter 3digit letters then download

 

http://rapidshare.com/files/74716597/dvd300n_300.7z

[chewy]

Blutach wasn't saying there was anything wrong with those disks, just that old a drive(especially with that firmware) doesn't like them

[jaymac]

Thank you very much Dontasciime now got it

Appreciate that chewy will try different discs

Thanks again

[jaymac]

Query please Dontasciime the file from you is 2.85 M/b as opposed to the HP site where it is over 4 M.b any reason for this

Thanks

[dontasciime]

yes I compressed it with 7zip , extract it and it will magically turn back into

 

 

Size: 4.31 MB (4,520,840 bytes)

 

Size on disk: 4.31 MB (4,521,984 bytes)

[jaymac]

Have to find summat to unzip it thanks

[chewy]

http://www.7-zip.org/

[jaymac]

Cheers I got it at source forge

[jaymac]

OK guys thanks to your help Now sorted .Following the golden rule of one move at atime tried different brand Infiniti and it worked then installed the update and lo and behold it worked with my Verbatim

Cheers