Failed to Write Sectors - I/O error

[flowerpie]

Hi everyone.

 

Last night I bought a new DVD-burner. It's a Samsung SH-S202H IDE. I connected to my computer and basically just put it where my old NEC burner used to be.

 

So anyway, I start my computer and check the CMOS/BIOS settings.. Everythings fine, its detected as TSSTcorp and yeah, it looked okay.

 

Then I launched my Windows Vista OS, logged in.. And Windows meets me with asking about drivers for TSSTcorp burner. And i'm thinking.. WTF? Do I need drivers for a DVD-ROM? I thought it was plug&play, and it used Windows drivers. So anyway, I told Windows to look for drivers, it couldn't find anything and it went away. I opened up ImgBurn and it seems like Windows had found some type of driver because there it was detected. So I tried burning. I put in a BRAND NEW Verbatim DVD+R DL into the burner slot and burned an Xbox360 backup at 2.4x.

 

Everything looked fine until I came to 85% where i suddenly got ****loads of errors about Failed to Write Sectors, lots of I/O errors... GOD WHY MEEE..

 

So I tried with another game with another new disk.. Same thing happened. Although the error came at 60% on the other game.

 

I've now tried this 5 times.. I've wasted 5 perfectly good Verbatim disks. And tbh, I don't know what to do. I'm thinking it might be the burner's fault.. It might simply be DOA.

 

Anyway, I've tried setting the jumpers to different stuff. Since it's the only IDE component i'm using I set it as master for now. I also tried cable select.

 

I also tried setting the PATA/SATA settings in BIOS from Native mode to Legacy mode.. Same errors.

 

And I've made sure it's DMA enabled in device manager.

 

I hope someone could help me with this. If it is a DOA i'll just return it. But it might not be.. So I thought maybe some expert advise from this place could be a good idea.

 

Any help at all is deeply appreciated

 

Here is the log file from the latest ImgBurn:

 

I 23:34:21 ImgBurn Version 2.4.0.0 started!
I 23:34:22 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (6.0, Build 6001 : Service Pack 1)
I 23:34:22 Total Physical Memory: 2 095 960 KB  -  Available: 1 229 872 KB
I 23:34:22 Initialising SPTI...
I 23:34:23 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...
I 23:34:24 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD±RW/RAM!
I 23:43:48 Operation Started!
I 23:43:48 Source File: H:\Mass.Effect_USA_XBOX360-PROTOCOL\ptc-me.dvd
I 23:43:48 Source File Sectors: 3 825 924 (MODE1/2048)
I 23:43:48 Source File Size: 7 835 492 352 bytes
I 23:43:48 Source File Volume Identifier: XGD2DVD_NTSC
I 23:43:48 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 34672923
I 23:43:48 Source File Implementation Identifier: Sonic Scenarist 3.1
I 23:43:48 Source File File System(s): ISO9660; UDF (1.02)
I 23:43:48 Destination Device: [0:0:0] TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202H SB00 (E:) (ATA)
I 23:43:48 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: MKM-001-00) (Speeds: 2,4x; 4x)
I 23:43:48 Destination Media Sectors: 4 173 824
I 23:43:48 Write Mode: DVD
I 23:43:48 Write Type: DAO
I 23:43:48 Write Speed: MAX
I 23:43:48 Link Size: Auto
I 23:43:48 Test Mode: No
I 23:43:48 OPC: Yes
I 23:43:48 BURN-Proof: Enabled
I 23:43:48 Book Type Setting: DVD-ROM
I 23:44:27 User Specified L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1 913 760
I 23:44:31 Filling Buffer... (40 MB)
I 23:44:32 Writing LeadIn...
I 23:44:34 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 3825923)
I 23:44:34 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 3825923)
I 23:44:34 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1913759)
I 23:56:24 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 1913760 - 3825923)
W 00:05:53 Failed to Write Sectors 3408416 - 3408447 - Write Error
W 00:05:53 Retrying (1 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (2 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (3 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (4 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (5 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (6 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (7 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (8 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (9 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (10 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (11 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (12 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (13 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (14 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (15 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (16 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (17 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (18 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (19 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
W 00:05:53 Retrying (20 of 20)...
W 00:05:53 Retry Failed - Invalid Address For Write
E 00:12:34 Failed to Write Sectors 3408416 - 3408447 - Write Error
E 00:12:34 Next Writable Address: 3407732
I 00:12:34 Synchronising Cache...
I 00:12:37 Closing Track...
I 00:12:41 Finalising Disc...
W 00:12:59 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (99%, 0/3) - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out
W 00:12:59 Finalise Disc Failed! - Reason: Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out
W 00:12:59 Retrying (2 of 3)...
W 00:13:12 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (94%, 0/3) - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out
W 00:13:12 Retry Failed - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out
W 00:13:12 Retrying (3 of 3)...
W 00:13:24 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (94%, 0/3) - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out
W 00:13:24 Retry Failed - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out
W 00:13:24 Retrying (4 of 3)...
W 00:13:37 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (94%, 0/3) - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out
W 00:13:37 Retry Failed - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out
E 00:17:27 Finalise Disc Failed! - Reason: Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out
I 00:17:27 Finalising Disc (Last Attempt!)...
E 00:17:51 Finalise Disc Failed! - Reason: Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out
E 00:17:51 Failed to Write Image!
I 00:17:51 Exporting Graph Data...
I 00:17:51 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Thomas\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\IBG Files\TSSTcorp_CDDVDW_SH-S202H_SB00_12-FEBRUAR-2008_23-43_MKM-001-00_MAX.ibg
I 00:17:51 Export Successfully Completed!
E 00:17:51 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:34:02
I 00:17:51 Average Write Rate: 4 057 KB/s (2.9x) - Maximum Write Rate: 5 573 KB/s (4.0x)
I 00:22:39 Close Request Acknowledged
I 00:22:39 Closing Down...
I 00:22:40 Shutting down SPTI...
I 00:22:40 ImgBurn closed!

 

 

edit: Oh and by the way.. I downloaded Auto-Updater for Samsung drives. It checks for the latest firmware. And yes, I have the latest installed.

Edited February 13, 2008 by flowerpie

[dontasciime]

Try burning them at 4x instead.

 

Actually ignore that, its the way you have posted log file taking up all the screen width ways, I just saw in log you have it set to max.

 

try the drive in another computer if you can then return it if still the same on made in singapore verbatim

[flowerpie]

Hi, I tried burning at 4x too.. Same error.

 

I dont' really have another computer to try it with.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

The Samsungs are great when they work ok but they seem to fail more often than some of the other drives.

 

There's nothing you can really do except throw the disc in the bin and try another one.