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  1. We are using Toast version 6.0.3 to create copies of an education video we did with DSP pro 3.0. The material is stored on an external Lacie hard drive, we record with an external Lacie unit (max speed 8X) and we use -R 8X disks by Verbatim ( the ones you can print on also).
    From 11 disks we got 6 which presented verification errors with Toast. During this testing period we had a suspition that the disks could not be written at 8X so we have tried 6x and 4x speeds which also created unusable disks !!
    We suspect of faulty media or a fragmented Lacie drive ( we transfered the material to the main hard disk and tried to burn at 4x but still problems ..)

    WE are still investigating the situatio but I would appreciate any feedback and prior similar experiences of the members of our forum .

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    The only thing I can help you out with is a not quite
    similar experience I had burning off Archived
    data from a Lacie FW drive to an external Pioneer
    DVR-107D drive. Burn speed was 8x, initial burn was
    ok, but upon verification, I recieved towards the last end
    a verification failed error. Ran Diskwarrior on the lacie,
    corrected some folders with incorrect flags, replaced
    the directory, tried again same thing.
    Finally, copied the data to a clean 20GB partition of
    the main Boot HD, ( newly created, never used)
    burned from that, passed with flying colors.

    hope this helps. Media I was using was trusted
    Samsung Be-All 8x media (Purple top).
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  3. Thanks for the input. To my surprise ... yesterday burning the same video file on a Verbatim +R 8X disk produced perfect results, and we have validated this on two disks. Another Verbatim -R 8X disk failed .. and at this point I am assuming that we are dealing more with faulty media than a fragmented FW Lacie drive (which of course is fragmented since we bought it for massive AV transfers).
    The bottom line here is our suspicion that even costly brands which have a good /reputable name ( at least in Europe), might release in the market disks which have manufacruring flaws.

    Can we get anyone in the forum to comment on similar experiences with manufacturing faulty media??


    Thanks again
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    Just want to confirm similar issues.
    Verbatim DVD-R (made in India) 8x media produced errors if burned faster than 4x.

    Sony 8x is OK so far.

    My drive is a Pioneer 107D with latest firmware (Ver.1.21).

    Please check that you have the latest firmware as Pioneer tweaks media compatibility between releases.

    Cheers,

    JoachimS
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    Also update to 6.07 of Toast (fixes some other bugs).
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