Some background. I have 2 Lite-On ATAPI DH20A4P burners installed. They both read/write audio CDs, they both read/write DVD-R's, and they both will BURN DVD+R's, but neither will READ them. For example, I just make a DVD thru Nero of some home video clips on a Verbatim DVD+R. Nero said it successfully finished the project and the disc plays in a standalone DVD player. In fact, all of my +R discs play in a standalone, but not my computer will not read them. It does this with ALL +R media, even stuff burned through IMGBURN. My system is XP SP3, and I only use Verbatim media on single-layer burns. For some reason, my Memorex +R DL's can be read just fine. I have tried probably 30 +R discs in both drives and none of them work. What is crazy is that it has not always been like this. Over the last year I have probably done 200 burns on these drives with +R discs. I have no clue what has changed. I have gone thru the sensible steps....checked firmware (current), even uninstalled the 2 drives and the IDE channel they are on. After re-installation, I got the same result. This is the Imgburn log when I try to read a +R disc Code: I 18:10:48 ImgBurn Version 2.5.0.0 started! I 18:10:48 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 18:10:48 Total Physical Memory: 3,538,028 KB - Available: 2,897,708 KB I 18:10:48 Initialising SPTI... I 18:10:48 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 18:10:48 Found 2 DVD±RW/RAMs! I 18:10:55 Operation Started! I 18:10:55 Source Device: [2:1:0] ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P 9P59 (E (ATA) I 18:10:55 Source Media Type: DVD+RW (Book Type: DVD-ROM) (Disc ID: MCC-004-00) (Speeds: 4x) I 18:10:55 Source Media Sectors: 2,295,104 (Track Path: PTP) I 18:10:55 Source Media Size: 4,700,372,992 bytes I 18:10:55 Source Media File System(s): None I 18:10:55 Read Speed (Data/Audio): 12x / 12x I 18:10:55 Destination File: C:\Image.iso I 18:10:55 Destination Free Space: 253,303,517,184 Bytes (247,366,716 KB) (241,569 MB) (235 GB) I 18:10:55 Destination File System: NTFS I 18:10:55 File Splitting: Auto I 18:10:55 Reading Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2295103) I 18:10:55 Reading Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2295103) W 18:10:55 Failed to Read Sector 0 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (2 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (3 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (4 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (5 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (6 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (7 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (8 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (9 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (10 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (11 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (12 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (13 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (14 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (15 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (16 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (17 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (18 of 20)... W 18:10:55 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:55 Retrying (19 of 20)... W 18:10:56 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 18:10:56 Retrying (20 of 20)... W 18:10:56 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error E 18:11:04 Failed to Read Sector 0 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error E 18:11:04 Failed to Read Sectors! I 18:11:04 Exporting Graph Data... I 18:11:04 Graph Data File: C:\Documents and Settings\Kevin\Application Data\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\ATAPI_DVD_A_DH20A4P_9P59_SATURDAY-FEBRUARY-27-2010_6-10_PM_MCC-004-00.ibg I 18:11:04 Export Successfully Completed! E 18:11:04 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:00:08 E 18:11:04 Average Read Rate: N/A - Maximum Read Rate: N/A Can anyone help?
The drive reports it's a DVD+RW disk. If you can install the drive in another PC and it reports the same, then I guess you need a new burner.
