WHATS THE DEAL!?

Okay, so the drive is a samsung 16x, brand new. The media is Phillips 16x, also brand new. For the first 20 or so discs I burned, everything went well. Now about 1 in 4 will burn correctly, the rest will have an error halfway through and I'll have to burn it again. Luckily you can burn over (with the same image) but you get the annoying difference in contrast halfway through where it's burned it twice. I've tried shutting out all the other running processes, freeing up resources, making sure the file is defragged, etc.

STILL happens. Any ideas? Does anyone even use lightscribe? The last thread on it here was back in Jan.

12/2/2006 12:15:26 AM

and btw these are DVD-R media.

12/2/2006 12:15:50 AM

probably not your issue, but one i had in the past was bad spots on my hard drive. I then burned the file onto DVD from a different hard drive and all went well

12/2/2006 11:07:44 AM

check for updated firmware on your burner, also make sure the disc is super clean

12/2/2006 3:36:25 PM

yeah, drive is brand new, firmware updated after I first noticed the problem. DVDs are new off the spindle, so they're supposedly not touched... or dirty


still happens... my solution is to just keep burning them, so the inside ends up being darker contrast than the outside b/c it's burned multiple times... sucks, but seems to be the only way...

12/5/2006 12:21:09 AM