Strange device behaviour

[tom942]

I don

Edited December 13, 2008 by tom942

[techman]

Drive is only 3 yrs old maybe more? Nah it couldn't be that

Seriously you seem to know what could be problems so you should test those theories. I know I just replaced 2 1yr. old Samsung SH-203b drives as they wouldn't burn my Memorex DVD+R DL media at 8x with 2 Samsung SH-223Q drives. The drives are so cheap today if you do a lot of burning be worth it to upgrade anyways

[LOCOENG]

I'll second the notion of obtaining a new drive.

[tom942]

Thank you for your opinions .

 

Both are right that it's time to buy a new one, so I'll have to read the reviews on cdfreaks or cdrinfo.

 

I'll have to read about Pioneer, Samsung or Lite-on because I can

Edited December 15, 2008 by tom942

[tom942]

Yesterday, after a reboot, I just started ImgBurn (without other programs running on the background) and burnt a DVD+DL. This was the error:

 

I 21:25:52 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!

I 21:25:52 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3)

I 21:25:52 Total Physical Memory: 2.096.620 KB - Available: 1.583.856 KB

I 21:25:52 Initialising SPTI...

I 21:25:52 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 21:25:52 Found 1 DVD-ROM, 1 DVD

[blutach]

It messed up just as it started writing layer 1. So, the drive has had it - it can't focus into layer 1 to write.

 

Regards