Dru500a & Princo issues

[braz71]

Ok I finally got my dru500a and its burning fine with out many problems. As per this fourm I have installed the 1.0f firmware as soon as the drive came. Now.....

I bought a 50pack of Princo from http://allmediaoutlet.com/P-DVDR-4.7-GENPrinco.html these dvd-r are shinny white in the top and purple on the bottom. They burn fine only made 1 coaster the dvd's all play in my home sony unit and my Dell laptop. BUT I cant get my 500a to play back these dvd-r for the life of me. I also made a data backup 4.3 gigs and that wont play back either.

All thoughts would be great tks in advance.

[donpedro]

What about this info from Sony's web ?

You will not be able to view a region free disc(DVD's you record yourself are region free), until a region code has been set by viewing a manufactured DVD disc that has a region code setting. Please download and review the Region code notice.

[braz71]

donpedro,

I very well guess that could be the problem but I doubt it. I have other media that plays back fine TDK, dvd+RW all play back fine after making a backup of a dvd. Do you have a link of what I need to dl and install to test if so that would be great.


tks

[jon_w]

Hmm, no idea why they're not playing back for you in the 500a. I bought 50 princos from that link also and I don't have any problem with movies I've authored via Ulead DVD Workshop or playing back movies I've backed up via DVDXCopy (using Nero burning).

[braz71]

I dont know but either its to odd. The 500a will burn to it without a problem never at 2x thou.

As soon as I fire up power dvd to play back my backup I get a error No Disk In Drive. I'm out of ideas.

[Byte]

Braz,

first make sure a region code is set for your drive (open My Computer, rightclick on the Sony - Properties, tab "Hardware", click from the list click the Sony again, click the button Properties, tab "DVD Region", look for "Current Region:").

Are you able to play original/presssed (i.e. region protected) DVD titles on the Sony?

If the answer to both is yes, I'd be interested to see a ADVDInfo dump of your Princo DVD-Rs (search for ADVDInfo on this forum).

- Byte

[donpedro]

That download is just document and it is on Sony's support web page.

[braz71]

Byte

Thanks for thoose tips. Region is set correct. Disc still wont play.

I have ADVDinfo here is what I have on these Princo, I did a #4 Disc Man Info

08 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Hope I did this correct??

[Byte]

Braz,

for DVD-R you need to select "0E - Pre-Recorded Information in Lead-in".

As I already said in another post, the Princo-made Bulkpaq Gen.4 2x-speed DVD-Rs that wouldnt work at all with the 1.0f firmware do work fine (at 2x speed) ever since I downgraded to 1.0d firmware.

I haven't tried 1.0e but the differences with 1.0f are minimal if you do a binary compare.

- Byte

[braz71]

Byte

Ok got it now. I really dont want to drop down in firmware its just annoying that I cant read them in my burner.

00 6A 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 50 00 02 98 0C 13 .J...@....P.....
76 78 80 00 03 50 52 49 4E 43 4F 00 04 00 01 00 VX...PRINCO.....
00 00 00 00 05 88 80 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

[Zmeister]

Ok I finally got my dru500a and its burning fine with out many problems. As per this fourm I have installed the 1.0f firmware as soon as the drive came. Now.....

I bought a 50pack of Princo from http://allmediaoutlet.com/P-DVDR-4.7-GENPrinco.html these dvd-r are shinny white in the top and purple on the bottom. They burn fine only made 1 coaster the dvd's all play in my home sony unit and my Dell laptop. BUT I cant get my 500a to play back these dvd-r for the life of me. I also made a data backup 4.3 gigs and that wont play back either.

All thoughts would be great tks in advance.

I have the same problems with the Princo DVD-RW discs. I think my problem involves Nero 5.5.9.17.0, as I have been able to read discs burned with other software. See my posts regarding this matter.

[braz71]

Zmeister,

I have this problem with Stomp Record NOWMAX ans with Nero 5.5.9.17.0. I need to find another burning app if these two have issuess. Any ideas?

[Zmeister]

Zmeister,

I have this problem with Stomp Record NOWMAX ans with Nero 5.5.9.17.0. I need to find another burning app if these two have issuess. Any ideas?

I do not have Stomp Record so I do not know if I will have the same problem with that software. I have successfully used Easy CD Creator 5.3.2.34 to write and read data off of Princo DVD-RW's, and DVD-Decrypter to write a DVD-video image file created with Imgtools 0.89 and view that video with the DRU-500A.

I have not tried Nero 5.5.10.0. Perhaps that might work better?