[RESOLVED - MAYBE] Need help, please, with burning DVDs

[Basil Chupin]

On 31/03/2011 15:28, rikona wrote:
> Hello Basil,
>
> Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 6:55:27 PM, Basil wrote:
>
> BC>  Initially I was most happy because, as you and rikona suggested, the
> BC>  problem appeared to lie with the burner itself and disappeared when I
> BC>  installed another burner from another computer after which I was able to
> BC>  burn, in succession,  4 DVD -R DL discs without any problems.
>
> BC>  But then the wheels fell off (well, almost) :-( .
>
> BC>  When I went to burn discs #5 and #6 the burn went to the end but then I
> BC>  got the 'normal' error messages with the first being "Unable to fixate
> BC>  the disc" :-( . However, the drive did NOT lock up AND the DVDs actually
> BC>  play normally!
>
> BC>  So, I don't know what the heck is going on and why.
>
> Just a thought, but don't know how valid it might be, but might apply
> since you were doing several disks.
>
> Some time ago i was backing up a box to LOTS of DVDs. After doing
> several, I got errors [don't remember now which]. Looked around to see
> what might be the problem, didn't see anything, so tried again. It
> started working for several more, then got errors. I noticed the disks
> were coming out VERY hot, as was the unit, so I let it cool a while.
> This burn, cool, burn, cool.... seemed to take care of the errors, so
> it might have been a heat problem. Again, just a thought...

Good point......except that burning #5 & #6 occurred 1 hour after doing 
#4 (I watched a TV program during that 1 hour) :-) .

BC

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