A) IMGBurn misreads drive B) can't close disc

[bluesbabe]

My CD/DVD drive is an NEC 6050A, but Imgburn consistently identifies it as a 6650A, which has different capabilities. I cannot convince the program it is anything else. Any ideas?

I am also unable to close a disc, and don't know why. I go to TOOLS>DRIVE>CLOSE>track, session or disc, and nothing happens.

Edited September 16, 2008 by bluesbabe

[LIGHTNING UK!]

You need to convince your drive, not the program.

 

The program gets the name by querying the drive.

 

ImgBurn automatically closes discs, it's not something you need to do.

 

If you have an open disc from another program, all you can do is issue all 3 of those commands. If they don't error out then the drive probably thinks it has dealt with them - again, this is a drive thing and ImgBurn has no say in the matter.

[lfcrule1972]

Have you ever updated the firmware on the drive, sometimes you can find firmwares that are patched and trick the original drive into thinking it's a newer version with different capabilities...... just an idea

[mmalves]

My CD/DVD drive is an NEC 6050A, but Imgburn consistently identifies it as a 6650A, which has different capabilities.

Where did you see that it should be 6050A? I've looked on Google and couldn't find a NEC 6050A burner.

[bluesbabe]

ImgBurn automatically closes discs, it's not something you need to do.

 

(Even data discs? Then I wonder why there's a "close disc" option under tools.)

I ran the DVD Burn program, but when it got to the closing part, it said it couldn't close it, and that it may be because it's a slim line notebook drive. As I poked around for more info, I realized it was listing the drive incorrectly. I thought it might be part of the problem.

[bluesbabe]

My CD/DVD drive is an NEC 6050A, but Imgburn consistently identifies it as a 6650A, which has different capabilities.

Where did you see that it should be 6050A? I've looked on Google and couldn't find a NEC 6050A burner.

 

It's several years old. I got the number from my SYSTEM TOOLS>SYSTEM INFORMATION lists. When I was trying to figure out the 'not closing' problem, I checked for updates, and did ieventually install one, somewhere in the middle of all this. I just checked the system info list, and now it is, in fact, listed as the new model. So that solves that part, but not the closing problem.

Edited September 18, 2008 by bluesbabe

[LIGHTNING UK!]

It probably means it couldn't close the tray (between Write and Verify - and this is to be expected on a laptop drive), not that it couldn't close the disc.

 

The options to close the track/session/disc are advanced features. Some people have a use for them, you don't need to have