DVD+R being rejected

[Rob Lines]

Hiya

I have a PowerPC G5 Tower, OS10.5.4, and the system profiler claims:

HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4082B:

  Firmware Revision: C03D

  Interconnect: ATAPI

  Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)

  Cache: 2048 KB

  Reads DVD: Yes

  CD-Write: -R, -RW

  DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW

  Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

 

So I bought some DVD+R's, but they are rejected after only a few seconds thought and spat out.

Any thoughts?

best

rob

[Richard Sheppard]

2008/7/23 Rob Lines <r...@roblines.com>:

The drive on my G5 Tower is quite pernickety too (PIONEER DVD-RW
DVR-106D, near identical spec in SP). I don't remember the last time I
successfully burnt a DVD with it, but it reads them and burns CDs ok.

What brand of DVDs do you have? Re:co once mentioned that you really
need to purchase a specific manufacturer's as their quality is far
superior.

I think I have not heeded his recommendation.

I have a LaCie external FW dual layer burner, which gives me better
results, although it's "coastered" a few cheapo DL discs.

I'm running Tiger, and try to avoid Toast - I'm losing confidence with
it, and am tired of having to pay £50 every year for an upgrade. I've
found MacTheRipper, Burn, DVD Imager and Disk Utility get the job done
for free. A bit of a kerfuffle to know which one(s) of those four
programs is most appropriate for which tasks, etc, but I've found
greater success using them than Toast.

HTH,

Richard

p.s. I feel quite satisfied in using both "pernickety" and "kerfuffle"
in one email.

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[Drew Reece (Re:co)]

Do you know what type of DVD+R they are? Are they Dual Layer? The size will be around 8.xx Gb if they are.

I'd expect to see DL in your DVD burning info if it was supported. If it's not that then try inserting when Toast or Burn are running. A restart couldn't hurt either.

Good luck,

PS It's Ritek (G05, IIRC) dyes for DVD's that seem to have the lowest coaster ratio. SVP have em, and there is a ton of info here

Re:co

[r...@roblines.com]

The discs are Philips 4.7Gb. Doesn't say dual layer.

I've successfully burned CDs and DVD-Rs.

And the OS seems to be rejecting the +R discs out of hand - I'm not
sure if Toast or anything else would get a chance to have a go.

rob

[Drew Reece (Re:co)]

Sorry Rob,

They are single layer discs you have and should work in that drive
(according to the ASP output). You could try opening Applications/
Utilities/Disk Utility and then insert a disc & see what happens. You
could also try burning a disk image inside Disk Utility & sticking in
the DVD+R disc when requested. It may just be the Finder being arsey
(it has 2 faces you know).

Also open Console (also in Utilities folder) and find the
DiscRecording.log under ~/Library/logs incase it is logging any error
that you can Google.
Results in the MacFixit forums always seem to appear when I search for
any disc problems, so maybe there would be a good place to search for
the drive's spec?

Re:co