All of a sudden can't make backups of my blu rays

[glenns]

Is this the page you downloaded your firmware from? http://www.tsstodd.com/eng/Firmware/...lim%20External

OEM Code
: TS
Firmware Ver. (Your log shows your using this version Tso1 but the update page says new firmware released so i thought they may have made minor changes to the same version else why would they say new firmware released?
: TS01
Sales Region
: WORLD WIDE
Specification
: New firmware released.

As I see under specification the words new firmware released.

Anyway your log shows this: Failed to Write Sectors 0 - 31 - Reason: Power Calibration Area Error.

When you get this in the log it is because the burning program doesn't like the blu ray disks your using and failed to write data to the disk.

This is caused by using cheap disks that are made cheaply and fall outside the burners ability to write data to.

If you try a good disk you will see it will work fine.You get what you pay for find the cheapest cost disk have the most problems.

Even disks that once worked may have been given to another country to be made in where the labor costs are cheaper so they don't use the same equipment and the disks that once worked no longer work.

Also everyone needs to check their firmware on their disk burners as manufactures will update their firmware to make their drives work with cheaper disks or to get bugs out from time to time.My pioneer drive's firmware was updated 4 times and it works now with disks it didn't like before.Their are some disks it still won't burn so i don't use them.

Then media players came out and I never will burn a disk again all movies now stored on cheap 3t hard drives.

[jwjiv]

I appreciate the help. I updated the firmware even though it was the same version ts01. That didn't help. I then updated it with the previous version, ts00, nothing, and then again to ts01 and still nothing. Through windows I tried to write data to a blu ray disc as a test and it still said it could not detect writable media. I have verbatim discs and I have philips discs. I find it hard to believe that of the two not one is working especially since I went through a whole spindle of 25 philips discs with no problem.

I guess I need to get a new burner and see if it works?

[90312]

Take a Q-Tip and dip one end in alcohol, not sopping wet or drippy, and clean the laser lens the take the dry end and buff the lens dry and give it a whirl.

[glenns]

jwjiv: Please download Fix it a Microsoft free program to see why your drive is not reading your disks http://support.microsoft.com/mats/cd...problems/en-us

[glenns]

jwjiv: Your not using bit defender security program are you?

[jwjiv]

No, not using bit defender security program. I tried that microsoft utility and it recongized the problem but was unable to fix it. Thanks for sending that though, I had't seen that program.
I did get a new writer today and successfully wrote to a blank disc an iso image that I had saved. However, trying to make a backup of Saving Private Ryan has been problematic. Here is the log, any ideas what it could be? I don't think it's the writer or the verbatim discs (it errors out during the rip, not the write):
DVDFab 9.0.3.1 (2013/03/28 19:44:06)

0m 00.03s: Start preload dll...
0m 00.07s: Load dll successful.
0m 00.07s: Start load fabplay dll...
0m 00.15s: Load fabplay dll successful.
0m 00.15s: Windows os type is: 13.
0m 00.15s: Transfer settings successful.
0m 00.23s: GPUAccelerate: 4
0m 00.23s: CUDA cap: 0
0m 00.23s: Support coreavc decode: 0
0m 00.23s: Graphics info: Intel(R) G45/G43 Express Chipset : :
0m 00.23s: Qt Translator file load success
0m 01.52s: Start get sys number.
0m 01.52s: Serial number is: 00-21-70-4b-80-49
0m 01.52s: Reg URL link is:
0m 01.52s: Version is: 9031
0m 01.52s: Product is: 2
0m 01.52s: Connect type is: 0
0m 23.13s: End check info.
0m 23.13s: Load config successful.
0m 24.46s: error curl post: Timeout was reached
0m 25.36s: Times of connecting error is: 1
0m 25.36s: Get registration info failed, the return string is:
0m 25.38s: Profile Manager :: Begin Load Profile
0m 25.38s: Init profile data driver sucessful.
0m 25.38s: Init GPU settings sucessful.
0m 25.38s: option dvd2dvd 0 dvd2mobile 0 bluray2bluray 0 bd2mobile 0 bd23d 0 bd2dvd 0 file2dvd 0 file2bluray 0 file2mobile 0 filemover 0
0m 25.39s: dvd2dvd:dvd2mobile:blu-ray2blu-ray:blu-ray2mobile:blu-ray23d:blu-ray2dvd:file2mobile:file2dvd:file2bluray:
0m 37.89s: Profile Manager :: End Load Profile
0m 51.63s: Begin init preview play engine.
0m 51.65s: Init DirectShow engine successful.
1m 12.15s: Init burn engine successful.
1m 22.34s: Start get sys number.
1m 22.34s: Serial number is: 00-21-70-4b-80-49
1m 22.34s: Reg URL link is:
1m 22.34s: Version is: 9031
1m 22.34s: Product is: 2
1m 22.34s: Connect type is: 0
1m 22.80s: Times of connecting error is: 0
1m 22.80s: Parse string is: 2:1338582666
1m 22.80s: Parse string is: 11:1338582666
1m 22.80s: Parse string is: 20:1395366592
1m 22.80s: Parse string is: 62:26
1m 22.80s: Parse string is: OV:9028
1m 22.80s: Parse string is: BV:9031
1m 22.80s: Parse string is: S:08f494d9d0e04f650ed752acb1925f16
1m 22.91s: opening drive F
1m 22.92s: opened i/o
1m 22.92s: got media type 15
1m 23.23s: got max lba 22470783
1m 24.11s: got disc type 20
1m 24.11s: type Blu-ray BDMV
1m 24.11s: volume label SAVING_PRIVATE_RYAN_1
1m 25.17s: opening drive E
1m 25.18s: opened i/o
1m 25.18s: failed to detect media type: sensekey 00 asc 00 acsq 00
1m 25.18s: got max lba 0
1m 25.28s: internal path F:/BDMV/
1m 25.29s: aacs 1 bd+ 0
1m 25.76s: got bdmv
1m 25.77s: Vendor: BUFFALO
1m 25.77s: Product: Optical Drive
1m 25.77s: Revision: 2.00
1m 25.77s: Vendor specific: BD-RW BDR-TD058.00
1m 25.77s: AACS version: 1
1m 25.77s: Number of concurrent AGIDs: 1
1m 25.77s: Supports bus encryption: YES
1m 25.77s: Supports binding nonce generation: YES
1m 25.77s: Supports Hybrid discs: NO
1m 25.77s: got agid 0
1m 25.80s: sent host cert chal
1m 25.81s: got drive cert chal
1m 25.81s: BEC 1
1m 25.81s: DRIVE_VENDOR 0x0067
1m 25.83s: got drive key
1m 25.84s: got host key signature
1m 25.84s: verified drive signature
1m 25.84s: verified host signature
1m 25.86s: sent host signature and key point
1m 25.86s: got bus key
1m 25.87s: got agid 0
1m 25.90s: sent host cert chal
1m 25.91s: got drive cert chal
1m 25.91s: BEC 1
1m 25.91s: DRIVE_VENDOR 0x0067
1m 25.93s: got drive key
1m 25.94s: got host key signature
1m 25.94s: verified drive signature
1m 25.94s: verified host signature
1m 25.96s: sent host signature and key point
1m 25.96s: got bus key
1m 25.97s: got volume id
1m 25.97s: got volume id mac
1m 25.97s: volume id is correct
1m 25.97s: got vid
1m 26.18s: blu-ray DEC690E210F215A0B88DC51D8194064D588108A2
1m 26.86s: cert BEE=0x00 same
1m 28.23s: D C62A0518
1m 28.24s: got vuk
1m 28.24s: got agid 0
1m 28.27s: sent host cert chal
1m 28.28s: got drive cert chal
1m 28.28s: BEC 1
1m 28.28s: DRIVE_VENDOR 0x0067
1m 28.31s: got drive key
1m 28.31s: got host key signature
1m 28.31s: verified drive signature
1m 28.31s: verified host signature
1m 28.34s: sent host signature and key point
1m 28.34s: got bus key
1m 28.34s: got data key
1m 28.59s: got unit key 7
1m 39.45s: Java protection is removed by StealthyClone anti-protection.
1m 40.09s: got discinfo
1m 40.12s: got bdmv
1m 42.37s: got extended bdinfo
1m 42.37s: opened blu-ray
10m 45.12s: Blu-ray Copy: Main Movie
10m 45.12s: Source: F:/BDMV/
10m 45.12s: Playlist: 1022
10m 45.12s: Chapters: 1 -> 21
10m 45.13s: TotalSize: 43342 MB
10m 45.13s: SourceSize: 40616 MB
10m 45.13s: RemoveHDAudio: 0
10m 45.13s: CompressToAC3: 0
10m 45.13s: OutputSize: 23000 MB
10m 45.13s: OutputDisc: BDMV
10m 45.13s: OutputTarget: BD25
10m 45.13s: OutputVideo: 1080p/i
10m 45.13s: info: enable bd copy(mode=0)
10m 45.16s: info: video encode mode(0), bitrate(13449), lr-encode(yes)
10m 45.17s: info: streams(4113.2)
10m 45.17s: info: blu-ray copy begin (unit[elem[atomic[00045.m2ts],atomic[00040.m2ts],atomic[00046.m2ts]]])
10m 45.17s: Lightning-Recoding (accelerate H.264 software decoding and encoding) enabled
10m 45.20s: info: enable multi-thread software decoder
10m 46.27s: info: h264_encode: encode param profile(2) level(41) bitrate(13449)
10m 50.29s: info: processing source(00045.m2ts)
11m 17.36s: info: processing source(00040.m2ts)
42m 32.80s: read error: 11 129376 11509503 5313982 40
54m 13.17s: info: processing source(00046.m2ts)

[jwjiv]

90312 - I will try this tomorrow and see if it works!

[glenns]

Go into Fab settings and uncheck lightning recoding and try again.You got a read error 42 mins into convert so it could be that and or a dirty disk.

[jwjiv]

I turned off lightning recoding and that did not help. This is getting really frustrating. I just renewed my dvdfab bluray copy license, i bought a replacement burner (the original was only 4 months old), I've gotten another spindle of verbatim discs and still not able to make backups. when everything was fine before! I'm beginning to think there is a setting issue or something with my system that is preventing this. The errors I'm now getting are always during the ripping process whereas the other day with my original burner it was the writing process. Now the error I get is ""Error while reading! Please choose what to do? retry, abort, ignore, ignore All" - I've tried a couple different source discs and they are clean. Can someone help?

[glenns]

The things that changed is the new spindle of disks for your old drive you didn't take my advice and try another disk besides the two brands you have at the house so I can't help you anymore with that drive.
My friend Holmes says when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

On the new drive does it work with the new spindle of disks? does the Philips disks also work with the new drive? test it out to see if they burn ok with the new drive use a (new) store brought disk make a copy and burn.Old disks that are scratched may play fine but won't copy.I researched your drive theirs no information on it where did you get it?