No Seek Complete, Failed to Verify Sectors ... ??

[tehfreeman]

I'm new here so thanks in advance for any replies. I'm basically using Imgburn to make images of DVD home videos so I can duplicate them. I'm using Taio Yuden media which was working great for 15 DVD's in a row. I was creating my images and then burning them to Taio Yuden discs for duplication. I managed to be successful burning one copy but then on the 2nd copy I began the downward spiral of 5 coasters in a row and they all have the exact same issue...

 

And it goes like this:

 

And error window pops up...

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I/O Error!

Device: [1:00:0] PHILIPS DVD+-RW SDVD8820 AD20 (D:) (ATA)

 

ScsiStatus: 0x02

Interpretation: Check Condition

 

CDB: 28 00 00 03 40 10 00 00 01 00

Interpretation: Read (10) - Sector 213008

 

Sense Area: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00

Interpretation: No Seek Complete

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Then I check the log and I've got:

 

I 22:55:11 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!

I 22:55:11 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3)

I 22:55:11 Total Physical Memory: 2,095,480 KB - Available: 1,452,332 KB

I 22:55:11 Initialising SPTI...

I 22:55:11 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 22:55:22 Found 1 DVD

[tehfreeman]

The most I can find on forums etc is that my media doesn't like my burner (which according to many may not be a surprise for the burner I have)...

 

The Philips seems to have its fair share (actually a lot) of critics and unhappy customers, but could it be something else considering it had 15-16 successful (in a row) burns prior to these coasters?

[mmalves]

I 22:55:31 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: TYG02) (Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x)

I 22:55:32 Write Speed: MAX

Try a lens cleaning disc on that drive. You might also want to try using the other available burning speeds. If that still doesn't work, try with DVD+R media (Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden are the best).

 

I would go for a normal-size burner in an external enclosure, as that gives you much better quality burns

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Are they genuine TY's or something by the likes of datawrite / datasafe? (i.e. all the ones that didn't quite pass the TY quality tests or whatever!)

[tehfreeman]

Are they genuine TY's or something by the likes of datawrite / datasafe? (i.e. all the ones that didn't quite pass the TY quality tests or whatever!)

 

To my knowledge all are genuine TY. The 6 coasters on my pc laptop left me a bit disturbed. I even encountered some read issues on my laptop as well with some older home dvds produced like a year ago (2) so I'm not sure but perhaps it is my read/write drive. In the meantime I switched over temporarily to my iMac and "simpyburn" to just create images and burn them and I have had 4 flawless images made and 4 burned within the last 18 hours so that is a good sign...