TYG02 burning problems.

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I've been burning Verbatim for the last few months and have not had a problem. I've never had a problem with TY either. I'm still burning at 8x to save a buck. I just got 600 TYG02's in last Thursday from Rima. The first 100 burnt great. The second 100 had 20 coasters. The third through fifth 100 burnt great. The final 100 had about 20 coasters. The problem discs are just hard to burn. I have newer Pioneer (NEC chip) drives and burn two at a time in three workstations. If one disc has a problem I loose two discs - series. I ended up having to burn a bunch one disc at a time.

Anyway, I'm sticking with Verbatim from now on and will get new drives soon. Last time I had discs that were this much of a problem to burn was back in the Ritek days. Hope they don't go bad on me down the road. Maybe it's a firmware issue - new mfg or mfg process and lack of firmware support.

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Usually the TYG02's are very dependable. Did you get any info/errors from the burn log as to the cause of the problem? What burning program do you use? The only other problem I have ran into with multiple burns is overheating of the burn drive after several discs in a row without time for cool down.

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TY's are great, but this is a disc problem. Be interesting to see if anyone else has a problem.

I've been using Instant Copy 7 since 03 because it burns multiple discs in series.
The bad burns all stop at the same point 2238.69 MB. It's not a bad spot on the disc though. All my burns, good or bad, have two what I think of as humps to get over. One at 238 MB and the other at 2238.69 MB. I can hear the drives slow down and then power up to burn through these milestone. It's something to do with the IC7 or my drives being in series or who knows what. It's has not been a problem except for these two 100 packs of TYG02's.

I've never had heat issues.

Usually the problem for me has been old firmware vs newly manufactured discs. The only other bad discs I have come across were Ritek.

I'd like to get away from IC7. It does not support the newest drives. I need burning software to burn to more than one drive at a time. I've tried Alcohol and my end up using that in the end.