Problem with Blu ray Burner?

[beezneez]

I have had no problem previously burning Blu ray movies using IMGBURN with my external blu ray writer LG BEO6LU10. Since a power outage, I am able to write to an ISO file without a problem. Cyberlink Advisor (program comes with the burner)shows all green lights for every system requirement. When attempting to burn to a BD - RE disc (with a movie already on the disc to be overwritten) the burn starts with a usual write rate which, after a few seconds, changes to 0KB/s (0.0x). Image Burn states that it is writing sectors and still keeps counting up the time. From memory, previous burns have always shown a write rate >0.0x. When I check Cyberlink Advisor it shows a red light for the Blu ray Disc drive - indicating no blu ray drive is found. Are you able to help? Is this problem with the burner? i have unplugged and plugged it in again in the correct order. Attached is the log which shows I aborted the burn. Imgburn has not yet cancelled > a half an hour later. If I press the cancel button again, IMGBURN tells me to be patient - that it heard me the first time.

 

I 19:40:18 Source File File System(s): UDF (2.50)

I 19:40:18 Destination Device: [0:0:0] HL-DT-ST BD-RE BE06LU10 YE03 (F:) (USB)

I 19:40:18 Destination Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: TDKBLD-Wfa-00) (Speeds: 2x)

I 19:40:18 Destination Media Sectors: 23,652,352

I 19:40:18 Write Mode: BD

I 19:40:18 Write Type: DAO

I 19:40:18 Write Speed: MAX

I 19:40:18 BD-RE FastWrite: No

I 19:40:18 Link Size: Auto

I 19:40:18 Test Mode: No

I 19:40:18 OPC: No

I 19:40:18 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 19:40:18 Filling Buffer... (40 MB)

I 19:40:19 Writing LeadIn...

I 19:40:40 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 14999519)

I 19:40:40 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 14999519)

I 19:52:11 Abort Request Acknowledged

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Verbatim makes the only BD-RE discs that seem to work.

 

You should give those a go.

[beezneez]

Verbatim makes the only BD-RE discs that seem to work.

 

You should give those a go.

 

Thanks, but in the past, i have had no problems with TDK, Sony, Panasonic, LG etc.

 

For some reason the Blu ray drive keeps dropping out - I pressed the safely remove hardware icon, pulled out the USB converter cable and then replaced it - and Cyberlink Advisor then showed green lights indicating the Blu Ray drive is found.

 

I might try a fresh BD -R disc tomorrow - it's bedtime in OZ and I have had enough of playing around with this for now.

 

If anyone can shed some light I would be grateful.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Ignore/forget the advisor program, it has nothing to do with burning.

 

If your drive stops responding to I/O then either the drive itself is stuck (firmware/media issues) or the drivers as a whole are - and that's not something I see happening to a USB drive.

 

It could also be a dodgy filter driver (or some other low level one from a virtual drive program etc). Post your filter drive info from the option in the Tools menu. Just copy it to the clipboard and then 'paste' it.

 

This may also be of interest to you - to make your drive into a GGW-H20L and use the newer firwmware.

 

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f142/lg-blu-ray-c...e06lu11-260811/

[beezneez]

Thanks for your input.

 

I have found the solution. My problem started when I installed an external hard drive. My wife kept telling me this, but being a male I didn't listen. I had this in the back of my mind but didn't think it would have caused the problem. Anyhow, I unplugged the hard drive and, lo and behold, the burner works perfectly.

 

Can anyone suggest why this was a problem? I am pleased I can now start burning again but it means I will have to plug and unplug the external hard drive- not to mention the wasted discs (ouch!).

 

FYI: I use ImgBurn (excellent) and NERO HD plug in with ANYHDDVD for encryption (even though it is supposed to be incompatable with ImgBurn & One Click DVDPRO) & TDK or SONY printable BD discs from Japanese e-bay sellers.

 

Hope this of help to others.