SENSE KEY = MEDIUM ERROR, SONY DVD-R's

[melman101]

Hey all, I am trying to burn a DVD with Toast and some Sony DVD-R media. It is giving me SENSE KEY = MEDIUM ERROR. Any suggestions on what I should do? I just spent $25 bucks on this medium. Any other ways I can burn it that might be better? Toast reports the disk as having 4.4 gigs free. Any ideas?

Sincerely,
Mel

[tgpo]

If more than one are bad, try to return them. Tell the store that your media is defective and can't be used. They may allow you to replace it with new media.

[galactica]

Definatly its the media either incompatible with your drive, or you are burning them faster than they can be burned.

I got this error with two brands that i found out were incompatible with my drive. Occured at both 1x and 2x.

I also get this error when I burn a 1x at 2x speed.
(Toast will allow me to choose 2x so I assume its a 2x burn disk, but after reading about the disk I find its only 1x disk! So the 2x gives me the Medium Error but 1x does not.)

[melman101]

I guess I'll have to try to return them to Best Buy.

[galactica]

Best Buy is pretty good about returns like that. If anything, just complain that there is no definative guide to dvd-r compatiblity and that every online dvd-r store allows guarentees for that purpose.

If they still argue, just say LOOK! I bought them here because I support the local buisniess over internet stores. That usually gets them

(you dont necessarly have to think that, it just helps to make the manager say Geeze, i dont want to deal with this, just do the return!)

[melman101]

Hahaha, good idea. I am going to bring my laptop to and prove to him that every disc fails, if they want me to prove it.



Sincerely,
Mel

[galactica]

Yea, I dont think best buy sells mac's so it will be nice to see the reaction of the guy when he sees how suave the mac really is!

especially the ease of burning a dvd!

while your there, say LOOK this movie plays fine on the apple dvd player! have a cut scene with the Matrix or some action movie pre loaded on pause with the volume at max!!!!, and speakers hidden in your pockets connected to the external audio jack, push play and BOOM everyone in the store will turn thier heads and say WOW look how clear the 17" laptop screen is !!!!!!!!! and ask the local sales man which isle that model is in. (if you have that model)

In his amazement at the size of the screen, he will say "I'm sorry mam, but we dont sell those here!" and the lady will put down the compaq notebook and walk away thinking to her self, wow I want one of those!!!"




im sure they will return them.

[tgpo]

I've had things like that happen all the time. I'll tell someone how easy things are for me to do and what not, and they'll say "What program are you running?" I'll tell them that I'm on a mac, and typically they look surprised.

[melman101]

I got a refund! Thank the lord, now all I need is to get some reliable DVD-R media

[tgpo]

Try Apple or Verbatim DataLife Plus brands. Both are great!