Joel Nelson Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Toast is hanging indefinitely at "writing lead-out" on a double-layer disc. Media is Verbatim DVD+R DL; drive is a NEC-based drive with the latest firmware (Firewire connection). Is there anything I can do and still have a readable disc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freshburn Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 What kind of firewire box? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John at Roxio Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 I also have found a bug that won't recognize the LEGO Star Wars video game DVD even when it's inserted. I had to re-install the OS to fix it. This is definately not ready for prime time and I've been using Toast since V1. Bummer. That has nothing whatsoever to do with Toast. It also tells me there are other problems going on relating to this drive then Toast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freshburn Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 This has been stated many times before, but here it goes again. Do not use Memorex media. It is not good. Especially the DVD+R DL. Most drives do not support it. DVD+RW are also poor quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freshburn Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 The -5001 error is a firmware problem. Only way to fix that issues is with a firmware update. If you have a Pioneer drive (which you probably don't because they don't have this problem) you could find a firmware. If you have the LG drive, well....I suggest getting a Pioneer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Michele Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 same problem here since toast 7. writing lead-out stalls but DVD is OK after quitting toast and shutting down and restarting the external firewire burner BENQ DVD DD DW1620 dvd first saving as an image and then burning works fine but I think after more than a year with serveral macusers having the same problem toast should finally fix this issue I was wrong: EVEN writing lead out of an image lets Toast stall.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freshburn Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Sounds like a firmware problem or possible a problem with the bridge. You may want to try burning at a lower speed in Toast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenng6 Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 I am having a problem with writing multisession DVDs. When I burn the first session Toast appears to be writing the lead out as though I am burning the entire disk. It is not hanging, as many previous posts are implying. The burning ends normally without an error, but if I try to burn another session to the same DVD Toast ejects the DVD and says to use a writable DVD. I am using a Power Mac G5 2 ghz with the stock internal burner and Leopard 10.5. I first noticed this problem when I installed Toast 8.0.1. I have the burn session radio button checked. I just discovered that multisession burning with Disk Utility is not working either. The option for "Leave disc appendable" is grayed out. Anyone else have an issue with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 I had the same problem (hanging on writing lead out) with a single-layer DVD-RW on my iMac G5 2.0 Ghz/1.5 GB RAM which DOES have a Pioneer internal drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Collingridge Posted February 21, 2007 Report Share Posted February 21, 2007 Is it possible that the reported fixes to 10.4.9 in the latest seed regarding "problems with DiscRecording and the burning of DVDs" may have some relevance to this issue? I have also been experiencing this issue with burning video DVDs, particularly onto DL media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Nelson Posted January 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 What kind of firewire box? Generic from a local tech shop. It works great on single-layer discs, but no luck on DVD+R DL in Toast. The burner itself is a NEC OEM (Mad Dog Multimedia). I can burn DVD+R DL on the drive from iDVD 6 but the picture quality is not very good and the audio is out of sync. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebob Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Okay, so Memorex media is supposedly poor. It's 2007 and too bad that optical drives and media are still so esoteric!!! As a 40 year old consumer, I would have thought a company as old in the data storage business as Memorex would be fine. I've now looked through the LaCie manual and found a recommendation to use the following brands of media: LaCie Apple TaiyoYuden Sony TDK Verbatim Ricoh Before I go out and buy more media (RW and DL), could the more experienced among us rank those brands in terms of quality/reliability? Obviously the first two brands listed are going to be more expensive than necessary, manufactured by someone else anyway, and hard to find in retail outlets. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve M Posted February 21, 2007 Report Share Posted February 21, 2007 I also have found a bug that won't recognize the LEGO Star Wars video game DVD even when it's inserted. I had to re-install the OS to fix it. This is definately not ready for prime time and I've been using Toast since V1. Users of Aspyr's "Call of Duty" have reported the same problem. Their support folks narrowed it down to Toast's Blu-Ray extension--once that is removed, and after a reboot, problem solved. As for the "Writing Lead Out" stalls and hangs: Earlier in the thread, it was suggested that the only fix was to get a Pioneer drive, because the issue is a firmware bug in my non-Pioneer DL SuperDrive, and not a Toast 8 bug. If so, why did Toast 7 work fine, and why does Apple's Disk Utility continue to work fine? Speaking of Disk Utility, I tried to make a backup copy of the audio DVD that comes with the Beatles' new "Love" CD. I tried all the options I could find in the manual, or think of, but Toast 8 couldn't make a copy my DVD player would recognize. Disk Utility succeeded the first time. I'm not here to bash Toast-- I've owned a copy for years, and come to rely on it. I like Toast. When I worked in Apple Retail, I recommended it to my customers. I've read the "It's not Toast's fault" statements in this thread; still I do hope that Toast 8.0.1 irons out the issues raised here. Sincerely, Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freshburn Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 1. Taiyo Yuden 2. Verbatim 3. TDK 4. Apple (depend on who makes it) I suggest checking out your drive and media here to see how it fairs. http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisburp Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 I'm having similar problems with IMac G5 1.8Ghz. Just burned a disk (TDK dvd-r) Took 2 minutes to burn the disk, 10 minutes to write lead-out. Thought it was a hang then all of a sudden it started up again and finished okay. Toast is hanging indefinitely at "writing lead-out" on a double-layer disc. Media is Verbatim DVD+R DL; drive is a NEC-based drive with the latest firmware (Firewire connection). Is there anything I can do and still have a readable disc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macdesign13 Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 I too am having this same problem with Toast reporting a "Mac OS Error result Code = -5001" when burning the lead-out. Disks are Imation DVD+R DL, drive is LiteOn LH-201AP. Although I hear what you are saying in attributing this problem to firmware/disks, surely given the range of combinations which are causing this problem reported in just this thread alone it does look as if there might be another issue at the root of the problem. I'm suspicious simply on the basis of Toast reporting a Mac OS Error as the cause of the problem - how does a problem of the type described end up causing a Mac OS Error? Also, the whole of the rest of the burn goes fine - it's just a consistent problem when writing the lead-out. Is it not possible that there is an issue here with Toast, or that this is something that Toast could be coded to work around? I haven't experienced similar problems on PCs using products like Nero... Forgot to add that the disks seem to play OK, so I have wondered whether in fact the report is actually erroneous in nature?? Without playing the whole disk through i can't be certain, and I don't have that much time to spare at present! I also am having problems with writing the lead-out, I'm running a new MacBookPro 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 3 gigs of RAM and 160 GB HD, plenty of room and plenty of RAM, it takes 10 minutes to write the lead out. The DVD's are fine but to wait that long is crazy, Toast 7 worked great, but now that 8 has been installed, even 7 hangs forever... I also have found a bug that won't recognize the LEGO Star Wars video game DVD even when it's inserted. I had to re-install the OS to fix it. This is definately not ready for prime time and I've been using Toast since V1. UPDATE: I also use Apple or Imation media. This is with the built in SuperDrive. Bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebob Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 I've had numerous errors using Toast 8 on a new LaCie d2 external drive where the error screen I found upon returning to the computer involved writing lead-out, and/or medium errors (sense codes=0x73, 0x03, 0x30, 0x06) . Mac OS X 10.4.8, dual 1.8GHz G5, 3.5 Gbytes RAM, permissions have been fixed several times, used both firewire and USB2 (both directly into the computer, not through any hubs or PCI cards). Media has been Memorex DVD+RW and DVD+R DL It has left me feeling like Toast 8 or my new LaCie drive is buggy. Yet I have burned a number of DVD disks (8-12) successfully. Most likely to succeed if I first make a disk image, then burn that. But burning DVDs already takes a long time and more interventions is quite annoying. Toast 7 worked with the drive for the few days i owned it before 8 was released... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Collingridge Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 I too am having this same problem with Toast reporting a "Mac OS Error result Code = -5001" when burning the lead-out. Disks are Imation DVD+R DL, drive is LiteOn LH-201AP. Although I hear what you are saying in attributing this problem to firmware/disks, surely given the range of combinations which are causing this problem reported in just this thread alone it does look as if there might be another issue at the root of the problem. I'm suspicious simply on the basis of Toast reporting a Mac OS Error as the cause of the problem - how does a problem of the type described end up causing a Mac OS Error? Also, the whole of the rest of the burn goes fine - it's just a consistent problem when writing the lead-out. Is it not possible that there is an issue here with Toast, or that this is something that Toast could be coded to work around? I haven't experienced similar problems on PCs using products like Nero... Forgot to add that the disks seem to play OK, so I have wondered whether in fact the report is actually erroneous in nature?? Without playing the whole disk through i can't be certain, and I don't have that much time to spare at present! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve M Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 I have a very similar problem, except I'm getting an error -5001 instead of a hang when writing the leadout on some of my projects on DL media. I'm using Verbatim DVD+R DL 2.8X blanks, and burning at "DVD 2X" speed. I'm using a Quad G5 PowerMac with the stock optical drive, 10.4.8, 2G of Apple RAM, and an added hard drive. Each HD has at least 25G free space, permissions are all good, and I've recently run TechTool Platinum 4.5 on the system and both drives. TDK DVD-R single-sided media has been trouble-free. Since the Verify step was skipped, I ran a "Compare," and I see three errors. The first is "Folder is missing (-120)" but nothing is listed in the Name column. And data mismatches are found in the VIDEO_TS.BUP and VIDEO_TS_IFO files. The discs do begin to play in DVD Player when inserted, but I haven't watched them through yet. I didn't have this problem with Toast 7. Even when I mistakenly left the write speed at 12X, the DL disk burns were good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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