JF Sebastian
23rd January 2004, 13:17
Hi all
I have been burning happily with my Sony DRW-U12A internal 4X drive for a year or so now and have NEVER had a failed burn. I did experiment with the super cheap media brands earlier on, but settled on Traxdata 4X DVD-R(Ritek G04 dye) after reading through a lot of other people's recommendations. It has also written to Ricoh and TDK X4 DVD+R with no problems.
I have burned around twenty five of the Traxdatas with no errors whatsoever, but in the last batch of 10 I bought, four have refused to be written to, either using Nero (5.5.10.20) or writing an ISO through DVD Decrypter.
Nero sits there after writing the Lead-in and eventually comes back with a "queueing failed" error, and Decryptor reports a similar error. I have tried the same burn on a -RW (different brand)immediately after the failure and it burned away happily.
You can hear the drive spinning and then idling, then spinning and idling, like a pattern, as it presumably tries to begin the actual burn after the lead-in. I do not think there's a software error, as the Decrypter ISO burn method also failed on the same media.
Is my burner dying or do you think I just got unlucky with one bad batch of Traxdata's?
Fingers crossed :)
JF
I have been burning happily with my Sony DRW-U12A internal 4X drive for a year or so now and have NEVER had a failed burn. I did experiment with the super cheap media brands earlier on, but settled on Traxdata 4X DVD-R(Ritek G04 dye) after reading through a lot of other people's recommendations. It has also written to Ricoh and TDK X4 DVD+R with no problems.
I have burned around twenty five of the Traxdatas with no errors whatsoever, but in the last batch of 10 I bought, four have refused to be written to, either using Nero (5.5.10.20) or writing an ISO through DVD Decrypter.
Nero sits there after writing the Lead-in and eventually comes back with a "queueing failed" error, and Decryptor reports a similar error. I have tried the same burn on a -RW (different brand)immediately after the failure and it burned away happily.
You can hear the drive spinning and then idling, then spinning and idling, like a pattern, as it presumably tries to begin the actual burn after the lead-in. I do not think there's a software error, as the Decrypter ISO burn method also failed on the same media.
Is my burner dying or do you think I just got unlucky with one bad batch of Traxdata's?
Fingers crossed :)
JF