media not detected error, but its writing to the disc

[papawhacked]

I recently ran out of blanks, so I'd been saving some movies to my hdd.

Finally went out and picked up some Verbatims, but the first 2 burns I tried resulted in errors.

I kept getting a no media detected error, sticking the disc back in didn't help. Tried this a couple times. Now, my pc thinks that both of those discs I tried have already been written to...if you look at the disc, you can see a very very small 'write' wring on the disc, even tho dvdfab kept telling me to insert compatible media.

Sorry to be non descriptive, but my errors kind of varied a bit...it usually kept giving me the no media detected error...then one time I got some strange error about the file I was copying wasn't formatted properly (which was a typical ISO file done in the exact same way I've done hundreds of others)...then I'd end up with the 'not empty' thing.

Definitely a bit confused...the only difference this time is that I actually got some verbatim discs instead of the usual sony or memorex that I used to buy.

I'm a bit worried to continue troubleshooting, as these damn verbatims were 2 bucks a pop.

Any clue how I could be writing stuff to the disc when dvdfab keeps telling me there was no media detected?

I checked my logs, but there isn't much there. My dvdfab process log hasn't changed since 5/19 for some reason, and all thats in my dvdfab_burn_vso log (even tho I'm using imgburn) is this:

2010-06-01 17:20:04 ---- ******************** Log session stop 01-Jun 17:20:04.592 PID 6056********************
2010-06-01 17:06:04 Info Disc (DVD-ROM) not emtpy.
2010-06-01 17:05:48 Info Parsing disc ...
2010-06-01 17:05:38 Info Disc ejected by user while parsing.
2010-06-01 17:05:22 Info Parsing disc ...
2010-06-01 17:04:27 Error WRITE FAILED: Write aborted by user
2010-06-01 17:02:40 Info Lead-in burning time (mS) 2307
2010-06-01 17:02:37 Info Write started 3312128 sectors to write
2010-06-01 17:02:37 Info Init success: DVD+R Dual Layer
2010-06-01 17:02:37 Info Init DVD+R Dual Layer: Layer change set to LBA 1979536 (3.78 Gb.)
2010-06-01 17:02:19 Info Writing speed requested x2.4, effective x2.4
2010-06-01 17:02:19 Info Layer break set by user at sector 1979536
2010-06-01 17:02:19 Info Available write speed: 2.4x
2010-06-01 17:02:19 Info Media ID: MKM-001-00
2010-06-01 17:02:19 Info Media type: Dual Layer DVD+R
2010-06-01 17:02:19 Info PIO Mode
2010-06-01 17:02:19 Info Write started
2010-06-01 17:02:15 Info Writable disc DL DVD+R inserted. Ready to write
2010-06-01 17:01:55 Info Parsing disc ...
2010-06-01 17:01:10 Info Disc ejected by user while parsing.
2010-06-01 17:00:48 Info Parsing disc ...
2010-06-01 16:51:01 Info Disc ejected by user while parsing.
2010-06-01 16:50:59 Info Parsing disc ...
2010-06-01 16:40:55 Info Disc ejected by user while parsing.
2010-06-01 16:40:33 Info Parsing disc ...
2010-06-01 16:40:25 Info Disc ejected by user while parsing.
2010-06-01 16:40:03 Info Parsing disc ...
2010-06-01 16:25:05 Info Disc (DVD-ROM) not emtpy.
2010-06-01 16:25:03 Info Compatible media types : DVD-R, DVD-RW Seq., DVD-RW RO, DVDRAM, DVD+R, DVD+RW, CD-R, CD-RW, DL DVD+R, DL DVD-R
2010-06-01 16:25:03 Info Drive has Serial ATA physical interface
2010-06-01 16:25:03 Info New Drive selected : 0:1:0 - hp DVD A DH16AAL LHDE [E] (Ide)
2010-06-01 16:24:31 Info Current Drive selected : 0:1:0 - hp DVD A DH16AAL LHDE [E] (Ide)
2010-06-01 16:24:31 Info Using Advanced SPTI interface
2010-06-01 16:24:31 Info System default language : English (United States)
2010-06-01 16:24:31 Info User default language : English (United States)
2010-06-01 16:24:31 Info DLL Version : 4.0.7.466
2010-06-01 16:24:31 Info DLL : C:\Program Files (x86)\DVDFab 7\vso_hwe.dll
2010-06-01 16:24:31 Info Version : 7, 0, 4, 0
2010-06-01 16:24:31 Info ExeName : C:\Program Files (x86)\DVDFab 7\DVDFab.exe
2010-06-01 16:24:31 Info OS : Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (Build 7600)
2010-06-01 16:24:31 ---- ******************** Log session start 01-Jun 16:24:31.765 PID 6056********************

[Guest]

Imgburn also saves a burn log . Can you post here?

[papawhacked]

Of course, I ran out of patience (even tho you replied here within minutes) and tried to burn another iso...it seemed to work fine.

Here is my imgburn log. The most recent one that failed was the 'bad lieutenant' one in the log. I originally tried it from an existing file, then I just re-did the entire thing thru dvdfab and told it to burn it directly.

Thanks for the quick response.

Couldn't post my entire log due to the size, so I just did a copy/paste of the last 2 burns. (the most recent one, pirate of the carribean which worked, and the most recent failed one, bad lieutenant, which failed, but resulted in my 2 discs having stuff written to them even tho dvdfab/imgburn never said they even got that far)

[CBR929]

papawhacked
Your drive is in PIO mode Open Fab Click the Little green check top right > general click Reset DMA and also make sure check for Dma is checked and restart Fab
Also you should be using the latest version you will find it here
Instead of clicking run click save then open the folder and right click and install the program as administrator
Give it a try and post back.

CBR929

[GregiBoy]

Also download and install the latest version which is 7.0.6.7 from links in this forum.