Verify Problem?

[willb]

I encountered a new circumstance today, and I do not see any precident.

I burned a freshly created DVD (video) from a broadcast program. Everything went well untill the burner did not become ready following the post finalisation tray cycle. Here I had 2 retry attempts, and then ImgBurn just "hung". I finally (after 11 min) clicked file->exit, and the operation aborted. Apparently, there was an unreported problem finalising the disc, and the file information was not actually written to the disc.

 

 

I think it would be an improvement if ImgBurn either prompted or auto aborted when the 3rd retry failed (I realised later I could probably have just clicked the big red abort button!).

 

Here is the full log file:

 

; //****************************************\\

; ImgBurn Version 2.4.0.0 - Log

; Thursday, 13 March 2008, 22:53:35

; \\****************************************//

;

;

I 22:04:42 ImgBurn Version 2.4.0.0 started!

I 22:04:42 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (6.0, Build 6000)

I 22:04:42 Total Physical Memory: 3,143,552 KB - Available: 2,065,096 KB

I 22:04:43 Initialising SPTI...

I 22:04:43 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 22:04:43 Found 2 DVD

[blutach]

This is not a "bug" - rather a bad burn. Try slowing it down a bit.

 

Does it happen on all burns?

 

Regards

[willb]

This is not a "bug" - rather a bad burn. Try slowing it down a bit.

 

Does it happen on all burns?

 

Regards

 

Yes, I know it was a bad burn! I said (or at least implied) that. (Even Verbatum spindles contain a few bad disks.)

 

No, it has happened only once (and is not repeteing - regardless of burn speed).

 

But, here is a circumstance where there could be an improvment in ImgBurn.

 

ImgBurn just "sat there" not doing anything after the last retry. My suggestion is that ImgBurn abort the process, or provide a notice (possible option) to abort or retry.

 

regards,

 

Will

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Ok, after the 3 automatic retries it'll prompt if it's still getting a typical failure response from the drive.

 

You can then choose to retry cycling the tray again or simply give up.

[willb]

Ok, after the 3 automatic retries it'll prompt if it's still getting a typical failure response from the drive.

 

You can then choose to retry cycling the tray again or simply give up.

 

Thank you!

 

BTW, I think ImgBurn is a terrific program!