Constant Verification Errors When Burning Blu-Ray Data Discs

[jbrooks]

I have the most recent version of Mavericks and Toast 11 Titanium (11.2).

 

I am trying to burn a Blu-Ray data disc (about 18gb) and I keep getting a "verification error...bad sector" in the same spot. You can actually see a thin dark ring on the Blu-Ray disc after it's done burning.

 

I used the "Compare" feature and it keeps freezing on the same PhotoShop file, saying that it's unreadable.

 

Then, I used another person's mac and created the data disc successfully with Toast 10.

 

Any solutions? I can't seem to find anyone who has the same problem as I do.

[erik5678]

I don't get verification errors, but Toast crashes during verification instead, so I have no way of knowing if my disc was successfully burned. This has so far happened for 2 of 8 discs, the other 6 has verified successfully.

 

Are you using a quality brand of discs? Some discs will fail more than others, and some disc and burner combinations don't work well together. I'm burning TDK BD-R with a Pioneer BDR-XD04T, and this seems to work well when Toast doesn't crash.

[zzz1372]

blu ray99,

 

Please tell us what software you do prefer. Do you have a preference for one product on the PC and another on the Mac OSes?

 

Rob

[blu ray99]

you should use other software than toast, it doesn't work well with blu ray discs at all. You will make more coasters than usable discs . I have tried it with 3 different blu ray drives and 5 different brands of discs and can tell you for sure that it is the toast software itself that is the problem. I now use a different burning software than toast and all of my problems went away, the sense errors and all. This Toast software has been steadily getting worse since version 10 and I hate to see what 12 is like. I have been ripped off by Roxio for the last time, they will never get another penny from me. Every year or so they repackage the same old software with a few tweaks and try to sell it to the customers as a new version instead of just making it an upgrade. Then on top of that they advertise blu ray support but to get it you have to buy a blu ray plugin for more money. Their software stinks as much as their shady business practices,and god forbid if you need support! Do yourself a favor and invest in a different blu ray burning software, it will save you a lot of grief.

[jbrooks]

I installed Toast 10 on my Mac and have not had any problems. I have completely stopped using Toast 11. Hopefully the developers will either make a fix for Toast 11 or address the issue in version 12.