unreliable burning

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i have tried two no name brands and tdk-r. i have a liteon 16x burner. i
have 8x disks but have beenburning at 4x to increase reliability. The last
few disks have managed to burn successfully but failed verification. anyone
have a trusted brand of disk or have a problem with liteon drives?
 
ian lincoln said:
i have tried two no name brands and tdk-r. i have a liteon 16x burner. i
have 8x disks but have beenburning at 4x to increase reliability. The last
few disks have managed to burn successfully but failed verification.
anyone have a trusted brand of disk or have a problem with liteon drives?
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Try ritek/ridata or maxell, in that order. Try a few of each. If those
brands won't burn successfully, you've definitely got a bad burner. -Dave
 
use + r instead of -r
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+ r always seem to take longer to burn at the same speed. Don't know
why that is, but 15 mins burn on - r took 20 mins on + r discs when I
tried.

Currently I'm using RiDiscs that seem pretty reliable, but would say
that sometimes you can get a bad batch that seem to burn, but just won't
read ok. Fortunately this has only happened to me with one set of 25
which worked ok with the first half of them but then everyone thereafter
wouldn't verify. I actually bought a 2nd DVD re-writer, which was ok
because I have a 2nd machine anyway, only to find that I was still
getting the same problem.

However, if you have tried several different ones then perhaps it is
your re-writer. I usually burn at 4 or 6 speed ok (and probably could
at 8x but don't want to risk it).
 
ian said:
i have tried two no name brands and tdk-r. i have a liteon 16x burner. i
have 8x disks but have beenburning at 4x to increase reliability. The last
few disks have managed to burn successfully but failed verification. anyone
have a trusted brand of disk or have a problem with liteon drives?
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i hate it when that happens...

when i get these sort of inconsistencies...i pop in my os disk, burn
the whole thing down and re-install os.

your problem CAN have everything to do with the configuration.

i went through several types of CD's, but none of them was consistent
till re-installed os...
or you could go through installed software and un-install everything
that has to do with the CD...

like...virtual drives?...

Im guessing that the CD driver has been replaced with a junk driver...

yeah...
 
ian said:
i have tried two no name brands and tdk-r. i have a liteon 16x burner. i
have 8x disks but have beenburning at 4x to increase reliability. The last
few disks have managed to burn successfully but failed verification. anyone
have a trusted brand of disk or have a problem with liteon drives?
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Have you tried a different burner program? I got a very high rate of
coasters with Nero 6.xx with my ECS VTA3 (VIA KT-333 chipset) and
Windows 98SE, never more than 5 good ones in a row, but with DVD
Decrypter the success rate has been close to 100%, even with Great
Quality junk made by Leadman Data (but I don't trust those disks).
 
ian lincoln said:
i have tried two no name brands and tdk-r. i have a liteon 16x burner. i
have 8x disks but have beenburning at 4x to increase reliability. The last
few disks have managed to burn successfully but failed verification.
anyone have a trusted brand of disk or have a problem with liteon drives?
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hi Ian. you could be suffering from a buffer problem.
I`m not sure whether you are copying files from your drive,
or from disc. See what your software is using as a buffer source.
 
Moments before spontaneously combusting Peter
+ r always seem to take longer to burn at the same speed. Don't know
why that is, but 15 mins burn on - r took 20 mins on + r discs when I
tried.
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A firmware update might remedy that.
 
ian lincoln said:
i have tried two no name brands and tdk-r. i have a liteon 16x burner. i
have 8x disks but have beenburning at 4x to increase reliability. The last
few disks have managed to burn successfully but failed verification.
anyone have a trusted brand of disk or have a problem with liteon drives?
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I have a Lite-On 1693 in this desktop and an 852 in my notebook, and have
burned about 500 DVD's in the past few months using Taiyo Yuden DVD+R's.
Not one has been a coaster, and all have tested with <3 PIF errors using
Nero's DVD Speed Disk-quality test or KProbe. Some of these were Sony
branded, but lately I've been buying only Taiyo Yuden from either
www.rima.com or www.supermediastore.com.

I have used RICOHJPN, Sony D11, and CMC and had mixed results. The Sony
D11's were very good, almost as good as the TY's, but CMC has not tested
well at full burn speed (16x)--better if slowed down.

Beware of fake TY's, and buy only from a known good source.
 
liteon themselves gave me a link to a firmware update. i also reinstalled
nero burn and installed the updates. to be doubly sure i also changed
brands again. First disk came out fine. also a 4x burn was taking half an
hour and so was an 8x. now a x4 burn takes 15-20mins.

Finally liteon gave me an address to 'smart burn' util. this identifes the
characteristics of the discs you are using. nominal capacity reads only
4.38gb. speed of burn was only x4.

Iwas burning froma recently defragged disk drive to the dvd drive. simply
using the 'create a data dvd'. mostly jpegs and word files. Basically
backing up my drive. Have been tidying up my drive and roughly dividing it
up into groups of 4.5gb. once done and had a successfully verified disk i
have then copied to my external hard drive. i haven't turned it off though.
Its permanently connected and switched on. There is now no data on my main
drive and only programs. Freed up more than 60gb by deleting duplicate
files and just plain crap. The other 35gb is now backed up on both dvds and
external drive.
 
another disc failed after the updates. switched to tesco own brand - I live
in the UK.

tescos fine in my pc. now my panasonic hd/dvd recorder failed to finalize
my disc after recording 4 hours of tv and my relabelling afterwards. dman.
 
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