dvd-r drive

[NiceButDim]

Hi, I’ve got a strange problem with my dvd writer that I wondered if anyone had seen before. It’s a pioneer dvd-r that I got just over a year ago. At Christmas I bought 25 dvd-rw disks. All of them worked fine at first but then around 3 months ago I noticed something strange; I wrote to one of the rw disks (using Nero), it seemed to go fine but when I looked at the contents of the disk it was blank. When I put the disk into my laptop (which has a dvd rom drive) it listed the disks contents correctly. When I tried to write to the disk again Nero asked if I wanted to erase the disk first, i.e. suggesting that it had spotted that the disk wasn’t empty.
What’s really weird is that this now happens with most of these disks, but not all. Even some disks that I haven’t written to for months show up blank, even though I’ve not touched them since first writing to them successfully back at Christmas time.
Recently I’ve had 1 or 2 coasters when writing to dvd-r disks. I had none when I first got the drive. I’m guessing that the drive is simply busted, anyone got any other ideas?

john.

 

[Crowley16]

maybe it's time you updated nero or flashed your dvd-r...

have you done any software upgrades during this time? you might have messed up some drivers...

the symptoms sounds like you are trying to burn the disks at too fast a speed, maybe you need to switch buffer underrun on...

Procrastinate Now!

 

[NiceButDim]

Thanks for the reply.

The burn itself appears to work correctly, as confirmed by the fact that I can read the disks (not just list the contents) on other drives.

I haven't upgrading anything recently but that doesn't mean that the drivers aren't messed up, so I'll look into that. Thanks.

john.

 

[Crowley16]

how often have you been using these rw discs?

remember, you've only got a limited number of rewrites, and they can/will start to degrade long before they get to that number...

Procrastinate Now!