I/O Error with Decrypter

[Omny]

I seem to be having a problem with backing up some of my DVD's. I am new so I have been doing my reading but I haven't been able to find any exact answers on some of my questions. First off I am running a Sony DRX-500UL with the latest firmware (2.0) on XP and attempting to burn DVD-9 to 2 DVD-5. I am using the following method http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/9893 except that I am creating an image with Classic_0.90 and then trying to burn with Decrypter 3.1.4.0. IfoEdit's version number is 0.95

I am trying to burn Serendipity and after some searching found out that it contains angles. Here are where my questions start:

1. Do I have to remove angles (or seamless branching) or can I keep them since I am burning to two DVDs with full quality?

2. What does it mean when I get an output error when trying to burn that says the following:

I/O Error!
Device: [0.0.0] Sony DVD RW DRU-500A 2.0e

ScsiStatus: 0x02
Interpretation: Check Condition

CDB: 5D 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00
Interpretation: Send Cue Sheet

Sense Area: 70 00 05 4C 20 35 07 0B 00 00 00 00 26 00
Interpretation: Invalid Field Parameter List

3. I burned "In the Bedroom" without removing the seamless branching and when I put in my Sony stand alone it displays an erro that the disk is dirty. Any thoughts?

4. I have the setting on the burner at MAX, should it be at 1x or 2x even though it only tops out at 2.1? I am buring with Ritek DVDs.

5. Does spiting the DVD on a cell make are large difference like some say or is splititng it at the layer change acceptable?

If any of these have been answered in a previous thread, PLEASE only send me the thread or tell me to look harder. I think if I can figure out some of these problems it will make is alot easier down the road.

Thanks in Advance :)

Omny

[LIGHTNING UK!]

You must have been using 'CD' mode for burning and not 'DVD' mode as you were supposed to.

How big was the image file you were burning?

[Omny]

I will have to check, as I didn't know Decrypter had an option to change between CD & DVD.

[Josh]

"Interpretation: Check Condition"

Sounds like a bad blank dvd disc possibly. As far as making the image, I use ImgTools .089 dll which I believe I got from Doom9's website.

"3. I burned "In the Bedroom" without removing the seamless branching and when I put in my Sony stand alone it displays an erro that the disk is dirty. Any thoughts?"

My friend has a Sony dvd standalone player and it can't play the Bourne Identity, which plays fine on mine and another freind's standalone. It tells him the same thing it's telling you. It's your standalone, the only solution is get a new one.

"1. Do I have to remove angles (or seamless branching) or can I keep them since I am burning to two DVDs with full quality?"

Depends on the movie, some you can remove, some you may need to leave in. If you leave the angles in you need to have the menu left too.

"4. I have the setting on the burner at MAX, should it be at 1x or 2x even though it only tops out at 2.1? I am buring with Ritek DVDs."

I've always burned at 2X for my 2X dvds. I've read by some you should burn at 1X, and by others that it doesn't matter. For meI haven't had any problems burning at 2X.

As far as the guide on that afterdawn link, it works for most movies. I think it's written in easy terms too for most people that are new to dvd burning. There's also another method that works on a lot of movies too, where you just delete the vob files off the extras. That link is here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25445&highlight=Toy+Story

[LIGHTNING UK!]

No, its not a bad disc.

The program has a little drop down box with 'CD' and 'DVD' in it.
If you select 'CD', it sends a cuesheet to the drive. This will fail if a DVD is in the drive because the DVD standard doesnt use cuesheets.

Images > 1GB in size automatically cause the option to be set to 'DVD' so either you changed it manually, or the image was < 1GB.

[Josh]

I'm getting the same error now too, and I have it on dvd. Except a little lower it's different, mine says

CDB: 2A 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 20 00
interpretation: Write (10) - Sectors 768-799

Sense Area: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 21 02
Intrepretation: Invlid Addredd for write

Any ideas LIGHTNING UK! ? Thanks.

[Josh]

I don't know if this was just a coincedence or not, but the image I was trying to burn was JP31.iso. I renamed it to JP.iso just for fun and it worked after that. I tried burning the JP31.iso 3 or 4 times and kept getting errors. First try with JP.iso it worked. Is there a rule that isos shouldn't have numbers in them, or is it all coincedence??

[Josh]

Must have just been a coincedence. Don't know why I'm getting errors. Now it's saying can't reserve track.

[-=ViBeZ=-]

Josh are you trying to burn at x2?

Try rebooting & burning at x1 speed.

If it's successfull then it means you have crappy x2 discs. I had that problem with datawrite white/yellow top discs.

Just a suggestion.

Also firmware upgrade/downgrade might solve this

[Josh]

Yeah, I downgraded my firmware and since then no problems. If it happens again I will try rebooting and burning at 1X. Thanks ViBeZ.