My recorder is not recording at mode I set it at

[kevs]

I've posted this elsewhere, so I've giving million dollars to who can solve this.

I set my Sony recorder RDR-GX 330 at certain recording speeds, and yet recorder records at other speeds. It's "intermittant"
thanks

[Bjs]

Any number of possibilities can cause this issue , but my number one is inferior media wrongly branded as being higher in write speed than is actually possible .

Then are you using the same brand all the time ? , you can always buy the same brand but receive an inferior batch
See what nero's cdspeed has to show , scan before burning to media , and again after the event .

Firmware for drive ? , has it been updated ?

Then it boil's down to the tool of trade ... what are you using to burn with ... not all are equal , and registry problem's can also trigger such event's .

[kevs]

0 for 1 Bjs
this has is going on with several brands of media most recently an excellent batch of Verbatims.

[Bjs]

Not entirely 0

You need to take and think about all the process's involved before one can point a finger at any one thing .

Simply , because you told it to burn at a set speed , that's the program ... it's a completely different thing when it come's to the hardware side , it either will or wont depending on the true rated maximum speed of the media , the firmware of the current drive , and just how much work it may have done till now .

Just because some dill slapped 40x on a cd , dosen't mean it always will , and the same gose for dvd media ... in any event , no one should write to media faster than half it's maximum rated speed , because it provides better fixation of the written data to the media , than writing to it flat out ... here today , gone tomorrow as I say .

If you have done all the required process's as mentioned , then I have only seen this happen once before , and it's either the drives interface causing the issue , or you have an os / program issue which needs to be sorted .

The drive can be confirmed if another pc is accessible , or even using what's called , a live distro , bootable linux , and try several burns under that os alone ... if it dose what you tell it to do and the burn speed stays put , then you can suspect the problem lies within the current os or software used to do the burning .

Check the cable's , I mean replace them , and check and clean those small jumper settings as well , they can cause common issue's such as these , and if there is another optical unit attached to the same ide cable , remove the damn thing ... one sneeze's and stuff's up , the other catch's it .

Secondly , you haven't mentioned the software used for the process , or the amount of work the current drive may have done up till this event occurred , which would help when diagnosing issue's .

Until then , I'd say were even .

[samijubal]

He's talking about a standalone recorder, not a PC burner.

[kevs]

YEs, and here is something. I set it to LSP, and sometime the recording comes back at SP, or SLP