Why can't I burn to my Blu Ray discs anymore?

[reeveer]

I have had a Blu Ray burner for 3 days now, and have been burning files and movies to it just fine. However, the past day, it simply refuses to burn anything to a blu ray disc at all. I can still burn DVD's just fine, but anytime I try to burn to a Blu Ray disc, it just gives me the following error:

COULD NOT PERFORM WRITE
LOGIC UNIT TIMEOUT

I am using a Sony BD RW BWU-500s burner, and like I said, it is brand new, only 3 days old. I am using Nero to burn and have tried lots of other software too, all with the same results. I have also tried to change my DMA to ON, but I cannot find the settings for it device manager in Windows 7. Below I will post the error log file from Nero 11 in-case it helps some peoople to help me resolve this. Many thanks!

Also forgot to mention.... when it has failed to0 write to the Blu Ray and I take the disc out, the disc has what appears to be deep scratches on it all over the disc... but when I wipe the disc these scratches go away and the disc is as good as new, and when i reinsert the disc to write to it, the disc comes up as blank and is ready to be written to. :s

----ERROR LOG FILE-----


9004-027E-UM18-71C6-57TK-P034-****-****
5K00-5078-01K5-5130-A82C-****-****
KC00-9039-1983-284A-2A45-****-****

Windows 7 6.1
IA32
Nero Version: 11.0.23.100
Internal Version: 11,0,23,100

Recorder: <SONY BD RW BWU-500S> Version: 2.63 - HA 1 TA 4 - 11.0.23.100
Adapter driver: <Serial ATA> HA 1
Drive buffer : 8192kB
Bus Type : via Inquiry data
Connected to MMC as unknown drive with class-nr : 1
Drive is autodetected - recorder class: Std. MMC recorder
CD-ROM: <ELBY CLONEDRIVE >Version: 1.4 - HA 1 TA 2 - 11.0.23.100
Adapter driver: <SCSI> HA 1

=== Scsi-Device-Map ===
: ST3160812AS 3.AA nvstor Port 2 ID 0 DMA: Off
: SONY BD RW BWU-500S 2.61 nvstor Port 3 ID 1 DMA: Off
CdRomPeripheral : ELBY CLONEDRIVE 1.4 VClone Port 4 ID 0 DMA: Off

=== CDRom-Device-Map ===
PHILIPS DVD8801 D: CdRom0
ELBY CLONEDRIVE E: CdRom2
SONY BD RW BWU-500S F: CdRom4
=======================

AutoRun : 1
Excluded drive IDs:
WriteBufferSize: 83886080 (0) Byte
BUFE : 0
Physical memory : 2047MB (2096440kB)
Free physical memory: 1113MB (1140040kB)
Memory in use : 45 %
Uncached PFiles: 0x0
Global Bus Type: default (0)
Check supported media : Disabled (0)

13.6.2012
UDF compilation
16:50:25 #1 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 464
LockMCN - completed sucessfully for IOCTL_STORAGE_MCN_CONTROL

16:50:25 #2 Text 0 File Isodoc.cpp, Line 7164
UDF document burn settings
------------------------------------------
Determine maximum speed : FALSE
Simulate : FALSE
Write : TRUE
Finalize CD : TRUE
Multisession : FALSE
Burning mode : DAO
Mode : 1
UDF Mode : pure
UDF Options : automatic
UDF Revision : 1.02
UDF Partition Type : physical

16:50:26 #3 Text 0 File compose.cpp, Line 969
GenUDF2: 1 transfer items prepared.

16:50:26 #4 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 3609
Turn on Disc-At-Once, using CD-R/RW, DVD R/RW, DVD DL, DVD-RAM, BD-R/RE, BD DL media

16:50:26 #5 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 333
[F: BD RW BWU-500S ] Total disc capacity: 12219392 23866MB
User data to be written: 5377280 10502MB
Free space on disc: 12219392 23866MB

16:50:26 #6 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 345
[F: BD RW BWU-500S ] Write in overburning mode: NO (enabled: CD)

16:50:26 #7 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 2970
Recorder: SONY BD RW BWU-500S, Media type: BD-R (seq)

16:50:26 #8 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 525
[F: BD RW BWU-500S ] >>> Protocol of DlgWaitCD activities: <<<
=========================================

16:50:26 #9 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 878
Setup items (after recorder preparation)
0: TRM_DATA_MODE1 ()
2 indices, index0 (150) not provided
original disc pos #0 + 5377280 (5377280) = #5377280/1194:57.5
relocatable, disc pos for caching/writing not required/ required
-> TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048, config 0, wanted index0 0 blocks, length 5377280 blocks [F: SONY BD RW BWU-500S]
--------------------------------------------------------------

16:50:26 #10 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1094
Prepare [F: SONY BD RW BWU-500S] for write in CUE-sheet-DAO
DAO infos:
==========
MCN: ""
TOCType: 0x00; Session Closed, disc fixated
Tracks 1 to 1: Idx 0 Idx 1 Next Trk
1: TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048/0x00, FilePos 0 0 11012669440, ISRC ""
DAO layout:
===========
___Start_|____Track_|_Idx_|_CtrlAdr_|_____Size_|__ ____NWA_|_RecDep__________
0 | lead-in | 0 | 0x41 | 0 | 0 | 0x00
0 | 1 | 0 | 0x41 | 0 | 0 | 0x00
0 | 1 | 1 | 0x41 | 5377280 | 0 | 0x00
5377280 | lead-out | 1 | 0x41 | 0 | 0 | 0x00
MediaType: BD-R

16:50:26 #11 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 251
SPTILockVolume - completed successfully for FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME

16:50:26 #12 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 4462
Caching options: cache CDRom or Network-Yes, small files-No (<64KB)

16:50:26 #13 PHASE 24 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 2030
Caching of files started

16:50:26 #14 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 4584
Cache writing successful.

16:50:26 #15 PHASE 25 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 2030
Caching of files completed

16:50:26 #16 PHASE 36 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 2030
Burn process started at 4x (17,980 KB/s)

16:50:27 #17 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 2924
Verifying disc position of item 0 (relocatable, disc pos, no patch infos, orig at #0): write at #0

16:50:27 #18 Text 0 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 10673
---- Disc Structure (BD): Disc Information on BD (00h) ----
Media Type: 1, Layer: 0, Address: 0 (0 h), AGID: 0; Length: 4098
--- Header ---
Disc Information Identifier: <DI>
Disc Information Format: 01 h
Number of DI Units/Aux Frames in each DI block: 3
Number of (recording) layer to which this DI Unit applies: 0
DI unit Sequence Number in DI Block: 0
Continuation flag: Next DI Unit is the start of a new set of parameters (0)
Number of DI bytes in use in this DI unit: 98
--- Body ---
Disc Type Identifier: <BDR>
Disc Size/Class/Version: 1
DI Unit Format dependent contents:
BD Structure: 18 (12 h):
1 recording layer (SL), BD-R
Hybrid Disc identifier/Channel bit length: 1 (1 h):
no DVD layer present, no CD layer present
channel bit length of 74,5 nm (25.0 GB max. per layer)
Push-Pull polarity flag bits: 00 h
Recorded mark polarity flag bits: 00 h
BCA descriptor: BCA-code present (1)
Maximum transfer rate needed by the application: 0 Mbit/s
Data zone allocation:
First Physical ADIP Address of the Data Zone of the related layer (FAA): 00020000 h (131072)
Last Physical ADIP Address of the Data Zone of the related layer (LAA): 00194E7E h (1658494)
Recording velocities:
Nominal Recording Velocity: 4.92 m/s (1EC h)
Maximum Recording Velocity: 4.92 m/s (64 h -> 100/100)=1
Minimum Recording Velocity: 4.92 m/s (64 h -> 100/100)=1
...
12 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00
00 19 4E 7E 01 EC 64 64 - 28 28 28 28 23 23 23 23
00 00 00 00 48 43 74 04 - 04 58 17 94 A0 18 18 18
18 18 18 18 18 20 20 20 - 20 70 00 70 00 70 00 70
00 70 00 70 00 70 00 70 - 00 70 00 70 00 70 00 70
00 A0 A0 C0 C0 C0 00 00
--- Trailer ---
Disc Manufacturer ID: 50 48 49 4C 49 50 h <PHILIP>
Media Type ID: 52 30 34 <R04>
Time Stamp [m:y]: 0 : 0000 (00 00 h)
Product Revision Number: 0

16:50:27 #19 Text 0 File BD.cpp, Line 414
Allocated spare area size on disc 620000h
BD: Start write address at LBA 0, Recording mode: unknown Recording Mode (0),
spare area allocation: default (no action) (0), Stream recording: NO (0); return code 0

16:50:27 #20 Text 0 File CUDFTransferItem2.cpp, Line 712

GenUDF2 FS Layout:
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Sectors to be written: 5377280
Session Start: Sector 0
Volume Structure: Sector [0, 256] (257 Sectors)
Meta Data: Sector [257, 260] (4 Sectors)
Data: Sector [261, 5376941] (5376681 Sectors)
After Data: Sector [5376942, 5376959] (18 Sectors)
Trailer Track: Sector [5376960, 5377279] (320 Sectors)

GenUDF2 Parameters:
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
PrepTime: 06-13-2012 16:50:26
UDF Revision: 1.02
UDF Partition Type: Physical
UDF Special Mode: None
Bytes per Sector: 2048
Session Start: 0
Physical Partition Start: -1
Total Capacity: 12219392
Multi Session Mode: None
Disc Type: BD-R
OS Class: 0
Volume ID: WrathTitansBD
Allow Unicode Labels: 0
Duplicate Meta Data: 1
MS Info File: 00000000
VMS Rollback File: 00000000
Create ISO bridge: 0
ECC Block Length: 32
Sparing Packet Length: 32
Allocation Unit Size: 32
Alignment Unit Size: 32
Make Writable: 0
Access Type: Read-only

16:50:27 #21 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 273
Pipe memory size 83836800

16:50:29 #22 Text 0 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 1274
: Queue again later
- 16:50:29.730

16:50:46 #23 SPTI -1 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 224
CdRom4: SCSIStatus(x02) WinError(0) NeroError(-1)
CDB Data: 0x2A 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 20 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x03 (KEY_MEDIUM_ERROR)
Sense Code: 0x73
Sense Qual: 0x00
Sense Area: 0x71 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73
Buffer x10a31640: Len x10000
0xFE A2 57 7E 92 32 09 50 C5 EC B8 CD 35 C2 4B 70
0xA7 BA C3 12 0D F1 D0 54 38 8B 94 52 B0 AA 17 47
0x3A B6 BE E3 23 50 7B B9 57 DE F0 2E 08 F5 B7 39

16:50:46 #24 TRANSFER -20 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 1222
Could not perform Write

16:50:46 #25 CDR -1 File Writer.cpp, Line 339

16:51:09 #26 SPTI -1511 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 224
CdRom4: SCSIStatus(x02) WinError(0) NeroError(-1511)
CDB Data: 0x35 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x04 (KEY_HARDWARE_ERROR)
Sense Code: 0x3E
Sense Qual: 0x02
Sense Area: 0x70 00 04 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3E 02

16:51:09 #27 CDR -1511 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 315
Logical unit timeout
F: SONY BD RW BWU-500S

16:51:09 #28 TRANSFER -24 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 1222
Could not perform end of Disc-at-once

16:51:09 #29 Text 0 File DVDPlusDualLayer.cpp, Line 1462
SetDriveCaps: Set LAST LBA of layer 1 to 0

16:51:09 #30 PHASE 38 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 2030
Burn process failed at 4x (17,980 KB/s)

16:51:09 #31 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 301
SPTIDismountVolume - completed successfully for FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME

16:51:09 #32 Text 0 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 12125
DriveLocker: UnLockVolume completed

16:51:09 #33 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 464
UnLockMCN - completed sucessfully for IOCTL_STORAGE_MCN_CONTROL

16:51:09 #34 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 251
SPTILockVolume - completed successfully for FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME

[MOVIEGEEK]

1. Use ImgBurn to burn.
2. You might have a bad batch of BD, try another brand.
3. The laser in your writer might be bad and those scratches are not normal, get an exchange.

[Noahtuck]

1. Use ImgBurn to burn.

ABSOLUTELY!!!
Dump Nero!!!

2. You might have a bad batch of BD, try another brand.

Again, Absolutely!!
It's funny how the OP gave so much info and a log yet never bothered to state what brand of media he is using
Although I did notice this in the log,

Disc Manufacturer ID: 50 48 49 4C 49 50 h <PHILIP>

Use Verbatim!!

3. The laser in your writer might be bad and those scratches are not normal, get an exchange.

But he stated,

Also forgot to mention.... when it has failed to0 write to the Blu Ray and I take the disc out, the disc has what appears to be deep scratches on it all over the disc... but when I wipe the disc these scratches go away and the disc is as good as new,

So obviously they are "not" scratches if they go away..

and when i reinsert the disc to write to it, the disc comes up as blank and is ready to be written to.

Are you checking your disc's BEFORE you put them in ?
"Scratches" do not magically appear then disappear by wiping them.
And if they show as being blank and ready to be written to, then obviously they have not been.

Get some good media and use a good Bluray burning program....

I can't even count or remember all the Bluray's I have backed up in the last 8 months since I started doing Bluray's, and the 2-3 that were bad, was because of the software used to rip (Dvdfab), and it was NOT because of Imgburn the media (Verbatim LTH) or the software (BDRB) used to compress down to BD25 from BD50.

[gll99]

UDF Options : automatic
UDF Revision : 1.02

I don't have a BD burner but shouldn't it be set to udf 2.50? I thought that was a better format for BD video. That's what I use to burn DVD5 and DVD9 AVCHD for compatibility with my PS3.

edit:
Sorry excuse my lack of experience with these. I did a bit of checking and surprisingly on quick read it looks like BD data disks can still be burned to the old udf 1.02 format so it shouldn't affect the writing part even if the format might not be compatible with all BD players..

Although I have a BDrom I've been on the fence about getting a burner. I saw the Philips discs yesterday at about $35 for 25 discs in store at Canada Computers. Cheaper than D/L discs in my area. I'm interested to see if they really are cr@p I can't justify paying over $5 per 25gb disc and that's why I haven't taken the plunge to BD writing yet. Please let us know if it turns out to be your Philips media.

[jman98]

Yes, gll99. You have done well in noticing that. The original poster needs to tell us if he is trying to burn a BluRay format disc (ie. a movie) that he wants to play in a BluRay player. UDF 1.02 is completely wrong for this. This makes me wonder if he ended up trying to make a data disc somehow.

Yes, he should use ImgBurn (it's free) and better media would be nicer, but fix the software issue first. Burn with ImgBurn, use UDF 2.50 for BluRay movie burning (you can find guides on the internet in how to use ImgBurn) and do NOT burn above 4x with your discs. These should help you to get burns that work.

[fritzi93]

Good catch. Had the OP been using ImgBurn, it would have prompted him/her to use the correct file system. Something along the lines of, and paraphrasing:

"I can't help but notice that the files you want to burn appear to be a Blu-Ray structure. The proper file system setting for BD is udf 2.50, not udf 1.02 as you have selected. Do you want me to change it for you?"

[pepegot1]

You may have LTH Blu-Ray discs. My burner will not accept them.

[Noahtuck]

Yep, I never even noticed the UDF issue.
I am so used to only using Imgburn & as fritzi93 stated, if something is amiss Imgburn automatically set's it for you, as it does for me all the time.
LOL!

[hello_hello]

I'd be willing to bet large amounts of money the burner is faulty. Don't Bluray burners use a different laser for burning Bluray discs than DVDs?

I've had a couple of DVD burners in the past which would happily burn one type of disc but not another. One burner would burn DVDs fine but never successfully burned a CD from the day it was new. I took it back for a replacement.

16:51:09 #27 CDR -1511 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 315
Logical unit timeout
F: SONY BD RW BWU-500S

Looks like a hardware problem to me. You could try updating the burner's firmware (if an update is available) but if a drive has happily burned away for a couple of days then suddenly won't any more I'd be thinking it's faulty.

[[_chef_]]

Yep, already mentioned, the used media is a bad batch or really crap.

But from the other errors shown in the log, the drive or its controller is badly ISSUED!
Try to clean the drive properly first!!!

[lordsmurf]

a bad batch

Remembering that a "batch" is 10's or 100's of thousands of discs. Bad batches tend to get widespread attention, including official acknowledge by the larger ethical manufacturers.

Too many people think of a sheet of cookies as a "batch" -- just a few spindles, bad luck, etc.

Bad batches are rare.

Consistently bad/crappy media, however, is very common.

[[_chef_]]

Yeah, but no idea where he bought them....

Seems in the first case a drive/hardware/software glitch.
You can only find out by experimenting...