Double Layer DVD Burning Problems

[dlebryk]

This is a confounding problem. I'm having some difficulty burning Double Layer DVD's.

 

I've regularly used the Data Disc portion of EMC9 - that would be the very basic "Make a Data Disc" menu selection (sorry I don't know the exact subprogram name). Until recently, single layer discs and double layer both burned equally well. Now all of a sudden, single layers burn perfectly, but double layers try to start but eject the disc immediately without even doing the laser calibration, and give this error message (in details):

Sense: 00 ASC: 00 ASCQ: 00 (Command 00)

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Px.dll: 3.0.88.500

PxAFS.DLL: 3.2.41.500

pxdrv.dll: 1.1.94.0

PxMas.dll: 3.0.88.500

PxSFS.DLL: 3.0.88.500

PxWave.dll: 3.0.88.500

pxwma.dll: 1.0.0.3

 

The really confounding part - if I go over to "Copy DVD Movies" no problem, I can burn a double layer disc, perfectly. Sorry the simple solution, "just use copy DVD movies" isn't a great answer for me - that burn method is way slower than the Data version.

 

It's not my blanks or my burners - I'm using Sony Blanks in a Sony burner. The firmware is current. And the IDE controller is set to DMA and is using DMA.

 

Any ideas?

[silver]

I did a registry clean up with McAfee

 

Well THERE could be one of the problems. McAfee I mean.

[dlebryk]

Well THERE could be one of the problems. McAfee I mean.

No McAfee was not the problem, thank you for the suggestion....

 

Did a clean install and the problem is now fixed. Still very strange that one module would get messed up, but another would be fine. Oh well, no need to really understand. The problem is fixed.

[gi7omy]

Have you installed anything else in the meantime?

 

Also, have you done a defrag of the hard drive and also a sweep with adaware and/or spybot?

 

Video files like to be in one contiguous clump and tend to hiccup if fragmented - also any spy/malware running will slow things down

[cdanteek]

Sense: 00 ASC: 00 ASCQ: 00 (Command 00)

 

"When the error code is all zeros, there are many cases where the error code the drive produces is not received by the application due to an unstable connection or interference from running programs. If the problem is not solved when you try the suggested actions, get your drive checked."

List of ATAPI Error codes

http://www.cdr-zone.com/articles/atapi_err...des_page_1.html

 

If you started using different DL media the time the trouble showed up, suspect the media first!

 

cd

[dlebryk]

Wow, super quick responses - thank you!

 

"Also, have you done a defrag of the hard drive and also a sweep with adaware and/or spybot?

Video files like to be in one contiguous clump and tend to hiccup if fragmented - also any spy/malware running will slow things down"

 

Yes in fact did all this recently - remember for the selection, Copy DVD Movies - that burning routine works perfectly for double layer. Single layer discs also work perfectly with Make Data Disc.

 

""When the error code is all zeros, there are many cases where the error code the drive produces is not received by the application due to an unstable connection or interference from running programs. If the problem is not solved when you try the suggested actions, get your drive checked."

List of ATAPI Error codes

http://www.cdr-zone.com/articles/atapi_err...des_page_1.html

If you started using different DL media the time the trouble showed up, suspect the media first!"

 

CD - thank you great pair of answers - I especially liked the ATAPI error code link - that was awesome, thank you. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the problem either, the drive itself - it works with Copy DVD Movies. Nope, not a change in media (that's so much the first possibility).

 

"Have you installed anything else in the meantime?"

 

Not really - but I did do a spyware / virus scan, clean results. I did a registry clean up with McAfee - but I've done those before with no bad results. There were a couple of windows updates recently - don't remember what they were. A bat file that sets internet explorer restricted domains with known adware / malware. And I ran another program to clear all the name domain servers in my registry. Hard to imagine how any of these would affect one module of Roxio.