Problems burning

[makaone]

Hi,

was just wondering if anyboby could help me solve a problem

I have a Pioneer dvr 107d, when i try to burn i keep getting a "Power calibration error" when gets to about 10 - 18%, this happens 5 out of 10 times.

Tried different media , differnt software, different firmwares to no avail,

any help appreciated

Makaone

[Carolina Mike]

Since you have a Pioneer I went to the Pioneer site and this is what they have there. This is also why it is important to use Good Quality Blank Media.
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Pioneer'e site

What is Power Calibration error.


A power calibration error is caused by the inability of a DVD-RW drive to use a DVD-R or DVD-RW disk.


DVD-R and DVD-RW disks themselves have information written on them, within this Media ID code there is information that the drive uses to calibrate itself to the disk, when a drive first starts to write to a disk it will burn a small amount of data to a calibration area on the disc, using the calibration information in the Media ID code, and then try to read back the data that it has written. If it cannot be read, then disk will be ejected and fail with a power calibration error.

A power calibration error is normally caused by problems with the media. Should you be experiencing problems with your drive or the media, we recommend that a disk from a good quality manufacturer be used to test it.

For fault finding purposes we recommend the use of a disk of a known high quality, we recommend disks from:


Pioneer Video Corporation
TDK Corporation
Hitachi Maxell
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Verbatim)
Taiyo-Yuden Co. LTD
Matsushita Electric
Industrial Co.,LTD (Panasonic)
Sony Corporation

[MysticE]

A friend uses Ritek/Ridata G04's with his 107.

[makaone]

Thanks to all, was just very unlucky that i had bad media, tried 4 different brands , all were bad , bought some good stuff and all is fine

Thanks for your responces
Makaone

[pd]

thanx for the tip, bro! switched from dvd-r to dvd rw.... writing fine. this site rules ass!!!!!!!