Thank you for your promt reply, however... the DMA on my burner is ON its the DMA on my DEAMON image drive that is off. Also the reason the memory was low was because i had other programs open. When i do a normal burn i shut down all other progs, I knew the burn would fail, I just needed the log info. I'm using media i've used many many times before, all with perfect results. This is why i'm assuming its not the media... any other help would be useful..