Pioneer BDR-205 not writing BD-R - ok on BD-RE though

[Meade]

Hi,

First off let me say I'm new to the world of BD-R buring, but have good experience with DVD-R and CD-R etc.

I have a new (3 week old) Pioneer BDR-205 fw v1.09 and I'm running v8.0.0.5 of DVDfab.

The problem I'm having is that I have not yet been sucessfull in writing to a BD-R, but can write ok to BD-RE's.

I'm currently using the VSO burn engine in DVDfab and have reset the DMA in DVDfab.

I have tried the forllowing BD-R's:-

TDK 1-4x
RiDisc 4x
Infiniti 4x (4 of them)

All fail with error code 122 (OPC fail).

I'm not sure if my writer has a fault or there is somthing I have overlooked in the software.

Any help would be greatly appreciated before I return my drive for a replacement.

Thanks....

[Guest]

Error 122 is.........

122 HWS_FAILED_CALIBRATING 22 // Write failed at the beginning of the media (often a media that is poorly supported by the drive)

It seems your new Pioneer does not like your choice of blank media.

Have you checked to see if there is a firmware update for the burner?

You will have a much better chance of success using Imgburn as a burn engine [free] instead of VSO.

[btufail]

Error 122 is.........

122 HWS_FAILED_CALIBRATING 22 // Write failed at the beginning of the media (often a media that is poorly supported by the drive)

It seems your new Pioneer does not like your choice of blank media.

Have you checked to see if there is a firmware update for the burner?

You will have a much better chance of success using Imgburn as a burn engine [free] instead of VSO.

That's what it seem like. Check out the Verbatim LTH Compatibility list. It mentions your pioneer as being compatible. May look into those.
http://www.verbatim.com/userfiles/fi...patibility.pdf

[DVDgrr]

Meade, I have a and the same Pioneer BDR-205 drive as you. While DVDfab seems to recode fine, I can't get the VSO engine to burn correctly. I also had Imgburn installed and I found DVDfab would burn as long as I selected it as the burning engine. You may want to try it instead of VSO. If you don't already have Imgburn, you can download it here. Best burning software, imo.

[DVDgrr]

Also, regarding btufail's suggestion of LTH media. You want to make sure the media will work not only with the BDR-205 for burning but also the player you ultimately want to play the burned copy on. In other words, if you intend on playing the burned copy on a different drive or Blu-Ray player than the BDR-205, make sure that player is also supported using the link btufail gave you.

[Potti]

btafuil is right, try ImgBurn. http://imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

[wilbur]

I had the exact same problem and someone on here told me to change setting dvd fab to imgburn and all is well. I sent back 30 verbatim discs and they replaced. That was before i new the info above.