Pioneer 104 - Media or firmware problem?

[mgd72]

Hello,

I have a Pioneer 104 (firmware 1.20) burning Ritek G03 discs. 95% of them burn fine. I have a few every now and then that give me problems. They will not play in my Liteon DVD-ROM or in my standalone Pioneer DV-250. However, they will play in the 104 and also in an Apex 1100W. I am burning the discs at 1X only.

I am guessing its a bad blank every now and then, but not sure. I have noticed that it takes the burner a bit longer to recognize these bad discs when I put them in as blanks to burn on them. I am totally stumped.. Anyone else have this happen? Any advice is appreciated.

For burning, I am using ImgTools 1.04 to burn or I use ImgTools 0.89 to make an image then burn with DVDDecrypter.


Mgd72

[gooki]

Things it could be.

1. incorrect authoring.
2. dust on the writing surface before wtriting has begun.
3. bad disc.

[mgd72]

1. That is not the problem because I can reburn the same files on a new blank and it turns out perfect. And the Apex 1100 plays the *bad* disc fine.

2. This could be a problem. I usually look at the bottom before burning. I keep them in the cakebox until I get ready to burn on them. I will start looking a bit closer on ones that take longer to be initialized by the drive.

3. I was thinking the same thing. It could just be a crappy disc in the batch.. But out of 2 100 packs, I get the same results.

I just switched from DMA mode to PIO mode. I hope that solves the problem. I usually hit a bad disc one out of every 10 or so.

Thanks for the help

mgd72