Hello,

I purchased & loaded EMC 8 in July. Everything has worked after we got past the "can't see media" thing.

This weekend I tried to burn more Audio CDs & found that the software gives & error & stops burning about 1/2 way through the final song. This happens no matter what the song is ... and even if I delete the last song ... it stops 1/2 through the song that used to be next to the last & burned perfectly just a minute ago. ??? Part of the description of the error said something about the drive head not being able to reach something on the media??

I checked the drivers & it shows my 2 DVD drives (one reader & one burner) as running on Pinnacle drivers. (I have Pinnacle Studio 9 on the machine). I have shut off the media center & drag to CD ... and pinnacle's drag to CD product ... I have a 48x burner which the software is running at 32x (1800 Athlon w/512Meg RAM)

Any ideas?
Barry

Sounds like you maybe having a problem with your drive.Is there only one in your system?If not try the other and see what happens.That error message sure sounds like a hardware problem.If the head is not able to track to a certain place on the disc it won't write it.

I don't know if any of this will make sense but I tried another burn and slowed it from max 32x to 16x and it still froze at 92% ... this is the best I could do typing all of the error message. Nothing about the head position was mentioned this time. I typed "..." when I left out some of the very long strings.

Barry

E_NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG (Write error – Medium error” (03/0C/00))

Sense Key = 0x03
ASC = 0x0C
ASCQ = 0x00
ULONG: Error Number = 130C000A
STRING: Error String = Write error – Medium error.
STRING: Vendor Name = NEC
STRING: Product Name = DVD_RW ND-3500AG
STRING: Firmware Revision = 2.16
STRING: Drive Letter = E
ULONG: Index of the IWrite drive that reported the error= 0000000
DATA: Command History – [1st byte: n=cdblen][n bytes: cdb data][1 byte: n=cdblen][nbytes:cdb data] ….
ULONG: Command Operation Code = 0000002A
ULONG: Command Execution Time in MS – 00000000
DATA: Sense Data = ptr.0x03270788,len:30 ….
ULONG: Addess in Blocks = 0005473
ULONG: Access Mode – 0000930
ULONG: Data Mode = 0000000A
ULONG: Position Index = 00000000E

The medium error may be your problem. Try a different brand of media, and see if that makes a difference.

This might sound crazy but could it be that you are using a 74 min cd instead of an 80 min and have the disc type at the bottom set wrong?If you divide the sizes (650Mb/703Mb) you pretty much get 92%.I'm not sure the program will let you get away with it,I don't have any 74 min cd's around.