When toast says not all sectors of dvd not verified

[bbrelsford]

Had a couple of dvd's that when finished burning in toast told me not all sectors were verified, please check dvd thoroughly.

Is this message a cause for alarm?

I can play dvd in dvd player and have selected a couple of different episodes and all seems fine.
Could it be I reading from an external firewire cd rom connected to my G4 and burning at a rate too fast for the dvd-108 to keep up? Or would it fail all together if it couldn't keep up with the burn?

Thanks again for all the valuable info!
Brian

[thoughton]

Just do a quick check of the DVD, if you have time play the whole thing. Usually it's a false alarm, some types of media will fail verification more than others. I used to get verification failures virtually every burn with Ritek G03s (but the discs always played perfectly in my DVD player).

[AntnyMD]

I get verification errors when I sloppily handle a blank DVD and put a big ass finger print on the burning surface. The burn will complete but verification returns an error. The disc will play fine up until the fingerprint. grrrr

[820am]

I use Ritek G04s and have never had a verification failure.

When I did have them, it was from Maxells and my drive was bad... (Though I still avoid the heck out of the Maxells)

[pasjk]

I have had a few bad sector reports during verification.
Highly unusual with Verbatim. With a couple of +RW discs I erased them and used again with no problem. Once had 25 out of 50 TDK-R fail verification and quite a few Fugi-R do the same. I use Taiyo Yuden-R now.Occasionally Verbatim +rDL. Question:are there any Toast 7 settings that are incompatible-Should verify data, simulation mode and buffer underrun prevention all be checked. What is the best combo or solo. could this affect bad sector reports?
Thanks.

[ffooky]

On the few occasions that this has happened to me I've always just used Toast's Compare feature (option-C) to see where the errors have occurred. If the errors are merely in some lame-o extra feature or whatever I rarely bother reburning.

[pasjk]

thanks ffookey.
Most of the time I am burning movie only.

[TugBoat]

I've gotten the verification failure a few times. My test is to right click on the mounted DVD and select copy, then paste it into a partition. This will attempt to copy the DVD to the Hard Drive. If the Copy fails (usually blamed on a Disc error), then that means that if I ever wanted to duplicate the DVD it would also fail. I trash it and try again.

[thoughton]

Slip of the tongue there Tugboat? Some of the nosier folks on this forum might ask why not just duplicate the original - I however am not one of them

[TugBoat]

A Backup is a Backup. A Backup that can't be duplicated is not a Backup. No matter what kinda slimy things are crawlin' around inside yer head