smwurster Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I'm trying to burn a DVD ISO to a DVD-R disc, using a Sony Optiarc drive. It fails to write some sectors and complains about "No Additional Sense Information". I updated the firmware on the drive to what I believe is the latest. And I believe I have the latest drivers for my motherboard (Asus P5N-MX). Still no luck. Judging from other posts, it appears to be a hardware/driver problem, but I'm not sure which parts may be causing the problem. Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem? The log is below. Thanks! ; I 21:20:35 ImgBurn Version 2.4.1.0 started! I 21:20:35 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 21:20:35 Total Physical Memory: 1,964,508 KB - Available: 1,568,752 KB I 21:20:35 Initialising SPTI... I 21:20:35 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 21:20:35 Found 1 DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynthia Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Hi and welcome to the forum, smwurster! Sure you haven't attached that SATA writer to a jmicron connection? Those normally don't like to deal with ATAPI devices such as your writer. It's the latest firmware you have installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smwurster Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 Sure you haven't attached that SATA writer to a jmicron connection? Those normally don't like to deal with ATAPI devices such as your writer. Hmm, not sure. How do I tell if it's a JMicron connection? You're talking about the underlying chipset here, right? As far as I know, all 4 SATA ports on the board are run by the same NVidia chipset. All are being used, too, as I have 3 hard disks and the DVD writer installed. Two of the disks are setup for RAID 1 (mirroring), so I cannot move those around. Could it be that since the SATA mode is RAID (as opposed to IDE or AHCI) this is causing a problem for the DVD writer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Optical drives don't really like anything other than ATA/IDE mode - and on top of that they're quite fussy about drivers (especially on nvidia chipset boards) You could always get yourself a Silicon Image 3512 PCI card and run the drive off that. You can pick them up for about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguetrooper7 Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Hi, for your info i am also suffering the same problem, i have a sony optiarc DVD RW AD-7200S running on an ASUS P5ND mobo. It is a fairly new system with the latest drivers, i have used various discs including RITEC and the only ones that seem to work ok are DVD+RW. (but not DVD-RW) The strange thing is (as you can see from the ImgBurn Log) is that if i keep hitting the retry button, after "retrying 119" the disc burn't fine and finished. It also plays perfectly. I originaly thought it was a problem with dvd decrypter and the new Optiarc, but, obviously not ! I 15:58:08 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started! I 15:58:08 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 15:58:08 Total Physical Memory: 2,095,596 KB - Available: 957,472 KB I 15:58:08 Initialising SPTI... I 15:58:08 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 15:58:08 Found 4 DVD-ROMs and 1 DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Your drivers are probably reporting bogus errors, not much I can do about that I'm afraid. RITEKG05 are rubbish too, get yourself some Verbatim / Taiyo Yuden discs as recommend in just about every media related post on every forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguetrooper7 Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Thanks for the advice Lightning, however ! Acting on your advice, I popped out and bought some verbatim DVD-R and have just had the same problem (except i only had to hit retry 33 times before it stared to burn the disc). once again i have ended up with a perfect copy. How bizzare ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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