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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.
I/O Magic 16x DL compatible with all formats
about 2 years old
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Check and make sure that
1- Your transfer mode is set to "DMA if avail" and the "current transfer mode" is Ultra DMA mode 4 (your drive should handle 4)
2- Make sure you are using good blanks. Cheap blanks (especially +R) can give you many many coasters. Try Verbatim, however I absolutely recommend going to RIMA.COM and ordering TAIYO YUDEN blanks, these are the best you can buy (archival quality) and are true Japanese made.
3- Check for firmware update (good luck with I/O Magic) I tried to find them but could not see anything resembling updates. Reason for the firmware update is partly to update/include new write strategies for different manufacturers of blank disks, your drive might not have a strategy for the disk you are trying to write, so it reverts to a standard strategy.
Your drive is not made by I/O Magic, these people are rebadgers and will buy from any manufacturer and put their name on them, if you can find out who made the drive and it shows in the device manager as such then you can probably use their firmware to flash it.
4- Only certain drives will support bit setting to DVD ROM and this would not make any difference in the write process, only in the compatibility of the disk with older players.
5- Try lowering the burn speed, it might help.
Good luck and keep me posted.