Harrie45 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I tried to erase a BD-RE disc with a LG GGW-H20L with ImgBurn. After erasing the program shows a dialog that erasing succeeded, inclusive the friendly music. But after closing the dialog the program shows: "Disc not empty" in the status line. I tried the disc included with the drive and a Verbatim BD-RE, both with the same result. Do I do something wrong? Is the drive defective? This is what the Device tab reports: HL-DT-ST BD-RE GGW-H20L YL05 (ATA) Current Profile: BD-ROM Disc Information: Status: Complete Erasable: No Sessions: 1 Sectors: 11,826,176 Size: 24,220,008,448 bytes Time: 2628:04:26 (MM:SS:FF) Supported Write Speeds: 2x TOC Information: Session 1... (LBA: 0) -> Track 01 (Mode 1, LBA: 0 - 11826175) -> LeadOut (LBA: 11826176) BD Disc Information: Disc ID: LGEBRE-S01-00 Disc Type: BD-RE === The log: I 19:32:16 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started! I 19:32:16 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Edition (6.0, Build 6001 : Service Pack 1) I 19:32:16 Total Physical Memory: 4,192,380 KB - Available: 2,759,204 KB I 19:32:16 Initialising SPTI... I 19:32:16 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 19:32:36 Found 1 DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Use the sector viewer to look at the 80 sectors on the disc. If any of them aren't all Zeros after a quick erase then for some reason your drive has failed to write to the disc - but without actually reporting any problem. I've seen several cases where the supplied LG disc doesn't work so that in itself is not an issue, but it is if Verbatims don't work either - they work fine in my H20L. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrie45 Posted January 22, 2009 Author Share Posted January 22, 2009 The sector viewer shows all 00 for at least the first 80 LBA's. I used a Verbatim BD-RE !!!! Isn't it strange that the Device tab shows: Erasable: No and Disc Type BD-RE I thought BD-RE stands for Blu-Ray Recordable and Erasable. ========== LOG: ------ I 17:34:48 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started! I 17:34:48 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Edition (6.0, Build 6001 : Service Pack 1) I 17:34:48 Total Physical Memory: 4,192,380 KB - Available: 2,666,532 KB I 17:34:48 Initialising SPTI... I 17:34:48 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 17:34:50 Found 1 DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmalves Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Do you have Alcohol 120% on your system? Or any other program that masks the current media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Oh crap, I totally missed the 'BDROM' bit! Yes that's weird and it's probably there due to Alcohol / DAEMON Tools. You need to turn off the options that make those tools mask the media - even if it only says it's doing it for DVD+RW or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrie45 Posted January 23, 2009 Author Share Posted January 23, 2009 Yes indeed I have Alcohol 120% installed. And yes when I disabled the "View - Options - Emulation - Ignore Media Type" flag, thinks looked much more logical. THANKS (a lot of companies can learn from your support forum!) ======= HL-DT-ST BD-RE GGW-H20L YL05 (ATA) Current Profile: BD-RE <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Disc Information: Status: Complete Erasable: Yes <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Supported Write Speeds: 2x TOC Information: Session 1... (LBA: 0) -> Track 01 (Mode 1, LBA: 0 - 11826175) -> LeadOut (LBA: 11826176) BD Disc Information: Disc ID: VERBAT-IM0-00 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Disc Type: BD-RE <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Current Format Capacity: Sectors: 11,826,176 Size: 24,220,008,448 bytes Time: 2628:04:26 (MM:SS:FF) Preferred Format Capacity: Sectors: 11,826,176 Size: 24,220,008,448 bytes Time: 2628:04:26 (MM:SS:FF) Maximum Format Capacity: Sectors: 12,219,392 Size: 25,025,314,816 bytes Time: 2715:27:17 (MM:SS:FF) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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