Hey there, I just bought some DVD-R's, which are these here to be more precise. I have the S203D as stated in the thread name and I've had no problems with any kind of discs, but these... however, I successfully burned a movie with my NEC 2500A drive on the verbatims here, so it's not the media. Under ImgBurn, the S203D could only collect these information: Disc ID: 0@P-!-00 Book Type: DVD-R Part Version: 5 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 1 Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP) Linear Density: 0.267 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 0 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 0 Apparently, the samsung can't read the media and if I try to burn anything it fails after 2 seconds, making the disc unusable and so on. It showed something about the media being dirty and something about I/O. The S203D seems to work perfetctly with my Verbatim 8.5GB media :\ I'd love to make a screenshot of the exact error information, but I've already screwed 3 dvd's and since I'm short on money... So, is my drive broken or what's wrong? Afaik, it's supposed to be quite the good drive, but dunno :\
Samsung makes terrible drives (even their hard drives are junk). The only thing worse than a Samsung burner is a sony burner. I am guessing that your 8.5gb media is DVD+R DL? If so, you will need DVD+R discs with that samsung burner. In general, you should always get DVD+R anyway; DVD-R is a leftover from the very first DVD burners.
