DVD problems on new 21.5 " iMac

[Moonglum]

Hi all,

I keep on getting a "connection unstable error 5" or something when i try and write a dvd with Toast 10.5. imac is updated with all the latest patches. When i drop the speed down to 1x it is a 50/50 % hit or miss to burn a coaster. I did a google and it seems a lot of other people has the same problem. Any other dvd burning software out there that i can try ?

regards

Moonie

 

[MadMailMan]

Is your Toast fully patched?

 

[hjno72]

Moonie, I accidentally push my SD card into the CD drive. Not a good design to put those to slots so close to each other.

 

[Moonglum]

Original updated to 10.5

 

[bwana]

Have you tried different brands of dvds? or DVD-R vs DVD+R

 

[Moonglum]

Verbatim - and Ridata -. Have not tried + disks.

 

[Sputnik]

See if you can have the drive swapped on warranty.

 

[paint_by_numbers]

Try this... http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21992/burn

It's free also

 

[Moonglum]

Looks like the problem is with toast. I burned a couple of dvd on "burn" at 8x and perfect. Same files on toast 10.5 = coaster.

 

[Sackboy]

Apple DVDs are quite sensitive to media brands. In fact the ones they recommend are not on sale much here.

 

[Keeper]

how does the DVD player / software even know the difference? can dvd's really be that different from each other?

 

[paint_by_numbers]

I've not (in the last few years) experienced any problems with my DVD burner (Powerbook and iMac). I know they used to recommend brands but the modern Macs should be able to use any brand DVD. I've bought various brands over the past few years and been able to burn on them with no trouble.

 

[Sputnik]

Apple DVDs are quite sensitive to media brands. In fact the ones they recommend are not on sale much here.

I'm almost tempted to call bs here. I only bought cheap no name spindles over the last years and never had any issues.

 

[Sackboy]

I've not (in the last few years) experienced any problems with my DVD burner (Powerbook and iMac). I know they used to recommend brands but the modern Macs should be able to use any brand DVD. I've bought various brands over the past few years and been able to burn on them with no trouble.

It depends what you call trouble. If you don't mind burning it slower than the drive is capable, then all fine ...

 

[Moonglum]

Well i dont know. I have always used Ridata and have had no problems so far. I updated my toast to 10.5. When i write a test file on my new imac 21.5 with toast 10.5 at full speed i get the error and a coaster. When i drop the speed down to 1x it is a 50/50 change of getting a coaster. When i try the same file with Burn it works perfectly at 8x. But, and now it starts getting weird, is when i take the same file and use toast 10.5 on my macbook and works perfectly ! And after googeling it seems that there is a lot of people with the same problem. So im just using Burn at the moment.

 

[paint_by_numbers]

It depends what you call trouble. If you don't mind burning it slower than the drive is capable, then all fine ...

Trouble is when I have to do something out of the norm. So burning at a lower speed is trouble for me. I've not had to change the speed of the burning even for the cheap brands of writeable DVDs

 

[bwana]

I'm almost tempted to call bs here. I only bought cheap no name spindles over the last years and never had any issues.

Go ahead and call it BS if you like but I've had varying degrees of success with different brands and formats.

 

[Sputnik]

Go ahead and call it BS if you like but I've had
varying degrees of success with different brands and formats.

Because it's the drive and not the discs.

 

[bwana]

Because it's the drive and not the discs.

Yes because, as a previous poster mentioned, the apple drives (Matsush¡ta in my case) are sensitive to different media brands.

 

[Sputnik]

Yes because, as a previous poster mentioned, the apple drives (Matsush¡ta in my case) are sensitive to different media brands.

We have ca. 50 Sun Ultra 40 workstations at work, all with Mat****a slot loaders and not a single complaint or issue with media. Most are linux with VMware XP installations. I've had 4 mac's with mat****a's and no issues with the media. But then again none have failed. I will replace the drive if it consistently fails or you have to change the speed.