Coasters when burning DVD

[marcus2704]

Hi,

I have purchased a Sony DVD DW-U10A DVD writer and so far out of 10 attempts Ive made 8 coasters. I am burning discs via Nero, and Ulead MovieStudio. I use red Datawrite discs, and have a set up of a P4 2.6 with 1024 DDR Ram. There is little explanation to the error, apart from "Write Failed" being the most common.

Could it be the media I am using? I have little background tasks running, whilst have enabled burnproof within the application settings. I am wondering if I bought the right drive as this is very poor. Can anyone offer some advice?

Regards

[Bob W]

My guess it's the Verbatim media as myself and others here have had similar problems.

[marcus2704]

I see, can you recommend a good (albeit reasonably priced) make that I could try?

[Bob W]

Well on my Sony DRU500axI have burned 2x TDK DVD-R, 2.4x TDK DVD+R, 4x TDK DVD-R, 1x Princo DVD-R, 1x CompUSA brand DVD-R(burns at 2x), 2.4x Philips DVD+RW, and several hundred 4x Ritek DVD-R. The Princo and Ritek you can buy cheap online.

I think Verbatim is having a serious quality control problem.

[marcus2704]

I have a 4x burner, and always set burnspeed to Max (or 4 whichever the case may be). Would decreasing this speed make any difference do you think? Ill try it in the meantime, but as you say I think perhaps the liklihood is the DataWrite discs as being the problem here.

[Bob W]

I have a 4x burner, and always set burnspeed to Max (or 4 whichever the case may be). Would decreasing this speed make any difference do you think? Ill try it in the meantime, but as you say I think perhaps the liklihood is the DataWrite discs as being the problem here.

Maybe however I bought 15 Verbatim 4x DVD+R discs and reducing the speed didn't help me a bit.

[txpharoah]

I crossed Verbatim off my list of good media. All of their recent media has been complete crap. If you're lucky enough to find their older stuff still on the shelves, be thankful.

If you have CMC discs, take them back. They're junk.
If you have MCC (Mitsu) discs, nice find.

[Rickster]

Marcus,
I've been getting some good deals at www.cdrom2go.com. I recently bought some US Digital Media silver DVD-R's at 89 cents apiece: a spindle of 50 cost me $44.50.

[mkelley]

Before you write off the Verbatim disks (I love them) I'd use Record Now instead of Nero for your burns and see what happens (you got Record Now with your drive).

I've burned 300 disks (mostly Verbatim) and haven't made a coaster yet -- all with Record Now.

[KenV]

Hi,

I have purchased a Sony DVD DW-U10A DVD writer and so far out of 10 attempts Ive made 8 coasters. I am burning discs via Nero, and Ulead MovieStudio. I use red Datawrite discs, and have a set up of a P4 2.6 with 1024 DDR Ram. There is little explanation to the error, apart from "Write Failed" being the most common.

Could it be the media I am using? I have little background tasks running, whilst have enabled burnproof within the application settings. I am wondering if I bought the right drive as this is very poor. Can anyone offer some advice?

Regards

Maybe you should check DMA for the controller that your drive is plugged into. My first attempt at burning a DVD through Dazzle DVD complete also yielded 2 coasters. Some of the suggestions I found were to:
1) Make sure the DVD is a master on the IDE interface it is plugged in to.
2) Turn DMA off for the IDE controller that the DVDR is connected to. You should just be able to turn it off for drive 0 on that controller.

I would also suggest that you do test burns with a DVD +/- RW (dpending on your drive) so that you don't burn too many coasters.

Hope that helps...