[moved] NEC 3540A - Circles on media surface after burning?

ikorman 2005-08-01 03:04:15 UTC #1

I recently bought NEC 3540A (with orig. firmware) and I have noticed something that I did not noticed before. Naimley, on all burned DVDs I can see concentric circles (5-8). It's like when you burn media for e.g. 50 % of it's capacity and you can see on surface which part is burned (it's less reflective).

With this new burner now I can see several alternating circles (darker-lighter-darker-lighter and then unburned area).

This my first time to see something like this, so I'm little bit confused. I'm using Traxdata DVD-R 8x, and I can read them but not on all drives. Also PI-errors are quite high on some media, 800-900. I'm using Nero 6.6.0.? Didn't noticed it on CDs.

Any help is welcomed

BR
Ivan

bichonn 2005-08-01 03:28:25 UTC #2

Traxdata DVD -R are ritek G05, which is not the best -R media out there!!!
Try burning them bellow the advertised speed.

ikorman 2005-08-01 03:35:54 UTC #3

Are TDK DVD-R 8x and Verbatim DVD-R 16x OK with NEC? I'm burning some movies and series that I would like to preserve for longer time, so quality of media is very important for me.

chef 2005-08-01 03:37:34 UTC #4

It's kind of normal and depends on the speed shifting during the burn.
Lower grade media can give you problems afterwards.

Just check the data integrity.