fastfrank

Scoobateers,
Anyone had any problems with the DV106-R and DVD re-writable media?

I've been trying to re-use some of my discs but they seem to either bomb out on an erase cycle or fail to read on other machines. I've hardly used them. The media is question is made by a company called 'Datawrite'. The website I purchased them from recommend these discs for this drive.
I use Nero to do a quick erase on the discs priors to re-use. This works ok on normal CDR's.

How many time can you re-use DVD-R's? I know CDR's can go upto 1000 times.

Any ideas?

Hobo_Jojo

cd-rs and dvd-r's cant be re written

u mean cd-rw + dvd-RW

Mr.Cookie

Hi

CD-RW's need to be closed for non CD-RW drives to read them i'd assume the same for DVD-RW, I've not had any problems with Datawrites on my pioneer 106 except speed issue but writing at times 1 (.4) solved this, have you tried writing at slower speeds.

Si

fastfrank

hi,
I've got a pack of green colour DVD-RW's which all appear to work ok bar one which is spit out when the system tries to write anything to it. Also if I need to write anything to the other discs I must perform a FULL erase (as opposed to a quick erase) in order to write anything to them.

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

i have loads of problems with both -rw and +rw once you have written to them a couple of times they have problems being read and crash thats with a a05 pioneer, best thing is just write to the -r's and there is no problems

fastfrank

surley thats not right. Re-writable discs of any brand should be able to withstand upto 1000 re-writes. I think I might send a mail to datawrite.co.uk to see what there stance is on this problem.

FF

Iain Young

I've got an a05 pioneer, and have used my dvd-rw rewritables loads of times (formatting and rewriting etc). Are you sure you're using the recommended brands of disc as that can make a HUGE difference (I use verbatim in mine).

If you go to blankdiscshop.com, the recommend which brands of discs to use for each writer....

Iain

fastfrank

yes, i'm using blank disc shop and the datawrite disc is one of the ones they recommend.

big500

Theres a firmware upgrade for the dvr106 (a06) which will allow you to burn on cheaper disks here

not that I am saying datawrite are cheap lol


Steve

[Edited by big500 - 10/19/2003 9:14:39 PM]

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

datasafe are the ones im using for -rw but im using verbatim for the +rw and they are both as bad as each other , have stopped writing stuff to rw disks ages ago more hassle than its worth, as soon as a disk is put in a drive it slows my computer down, and they are for ever crashing nero and prassi

Iain Young

Hmm, I use easy cd/dvd creator (on three different machines). It seems stable enough, can rewrite to the media multiple times, and get no problems with crashing at all. Sounds like this might be a software problem rather than the cdrw media itself....

fastfrank

I'm at a bit of a loose end with this one. My bro has now told me that some of the discs I wrote a few weeks ago are now struggling to be read by any drive. Maybe the writer is at fault or maybe the media is duff??

My brother also told me he has upgraded the firware to 1.07 which is the latest version when I look at Pioneer's website.

I'm just doing some more tests on a new DVD-RW disc to see if this fails when I wipe it and try to re-write.

Do we thing the writing S/W can make a big difference (I'm using the latest Nero at present).


cheers

APJ

How do I find out the firmware version of a 106 under XP?

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

APJ - If you have Nero you can see it under, Recorder -> Choose Recorder -> Firmware Revision

Scooby Dooby Blue

Visit; www.dvdrecordable.org and download an app called DVDInfo. It will tell you everything you need to know about the drives and media you are using

fastfrank

I took a BRAND NEW DVR-RW disc, wrote to it... and worked fine. No errors reported. Transfered disc to another machine to read.. also works fine.

However, if I erase the disc and re-write to it it bombs out near the end but appears to have written ok. If I try to access the disc on the same/different machine the event logs start populating with 'Bad Block detected' errors.

So is the media or drive as fault?

CD-RW still work fine, no matter how ofter I write to them.

Nimbus

You can download DVDinfo from here..

http://www.cdfreaks.com/software/60

That other site does not appear to be up yet...