Infected Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 (edited) Hey People at imgburn! I accounted a problem a few days ago with my lightscribe cd/dvd drive. I have an Asus SATA DVD+-RW with Lightscribe Model: DRW-2014L1T. So I'll explain what happened, I was burning a few images the other day and at first there was no problem. I was using my computer at the same time as I was burning and thought that would be no problem since the buffer was full and I had lots of free memory. When it came to my third image I was burning, sadly the program I was using behind imgburn freezes and suddenly uses lots of memory. I see the buffers in imgburn going down to zero including the harddiskactivity. I thought ok this burn is lost, I'll just try again. After a while I manage to kill the process of the program that hanged and release my computer from it's grip I notice how imgburn recovered the harddiskactivity and buffers and continued to burn the image. I thought, hey how cool if it actually managed to save that burn. During verify I get a I/O Error and thought ok maybe it wasn't saved. I try burning the Image again but with the same result during verify (not during the burn) I was thinking, maybe it's a bad image and tried another one but with the same result. I took a look at the cd's I'm burning and noticed that there are big gaps in the information on the cd, here's a foto of the cd: http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo93/vi.../FailedBurn.jpg Now I'm wondering if I possibly damaged my cd drive when the computer freezed or if this is a problem that can be solved with re installation of some kind or maybe it's my media that's bad. I use TDK Lightscribe discs and they usually work fine with my drive. Log from first Failed burn, the one were computer freezed: ; //****************************************\\; ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 - Log ; tisdag, 24 mars 2009, 15:04:39 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 13:03:56 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started! I 13:03:56 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 13:03:56 Total Physical Memory: 2 096 172 KB - Available: 1 361 272 KB I 13:03:56 Initialising SPTI... I 13:03:56 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 13:03:56 Found 1 DVD Edited March 26, 2009 by Infected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 I 13:04:18 Destination Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: MBIPG101-R05-01) (Speeds: 4x; 8x; 10x; 12x; 16x) Try burning at all the other 'supported' speeds. There's nothing to say 4x will make that drive produce the best quality burn. If they all fail in the same way, buy some better discs - i.e. Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden. Being 'TDK' doesn't mean anything, it's the dye ('Disc ID') that's important and that can change with every spindle you buy... even though you might always be purchasing TDK branded disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infected Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 Tried different speeds with the same result. I only had a few cd's left and they are all from the same spindle. I guess I have to go and buy some new cd's and try another brand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artot Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I've once used a TDK DVD's and the whole cake was bad. Data was recorded but after a while data disappeared from DVD. (there were only 1 all over the disk) Data was written on different burners. I think it can be mistake in production of this CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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