LG Burner won't Burn BD Disks

[wulf109]

I have an LG BD burner,an older model that will rip HD-DVD as well as BD. The burner will not burn BD disks anymore. I put a new LG burner in the computer and it burns without problem. The old drive will rip BD but won't burn. It will burn regular DVD both SL and DL layer. Do BD drives use separate lasers for ripping and buning. I notice that when I open Imgburn it reports the BD as 2x burn only. The new reports 2-4-6-8 speeds available.

[jman98]

Do you have LTH BD-R discs by any chance? The reason I ask is that I have an LG BD burner (more recent than yours) and it refuses to touch LTH BD-R discs. I have to use my other BD burner (Pioneer) for those. As far as I know the same laser is used for BD whether reading or writing.

[wulf109]

No,not LTH disks. It's been working on all disk burns for at least two years. Failing to write BD's only in the past week. Odd that it will rip BD's but it won't burn them.

[wulf109]

I've burned about 200 of the brand I'm using over the past 2 years. I noticed that Imgburn was reporting a different Disk ID,this was a new cake box I was using for the first time. I was using the same firmware the drive came with. On the off chance this new Disk ID could be the problem I flashed the firmware to the latest version,YL07 and now it's burning BD's again. Original Disk ID was Ricohxxxx,this new ID is LGEBRA-S06-000. Just a guess but the disk ID may not have been in the firmwares original Disk ID Table.

[jman98]

Yeah, that kind of issue was known to happen with lower quality DVDs. They wouldn't burn until you updated the firmware. I can't even find any new firmware for my drive (apparently LG never bothered to release any beyond the first one) to see if that might have helped with the LTH issue.

I bought some TDK BD-R discs from Japan without doing my research and I was horrified to find out that they were made by Ricoh. They burned and played OK but I'm not going to get those again. I've decided to just stick with Verbatim.