DVDA5 & HP BD-RE BH20L Drive

DanVM wrote on 8/22/2010, 2:37 PM
I'm running DVDA5 (latest build) on an Windows 7 64Bit machine with an HP BD-RE drive, model BH20L (with updated firmware). Since BD's are expensive I purchased a couple BD-RE discs to test my compilation before burning to a BD-R. Using DVDA5, I select the "prepare & burn" option and though it reports the presence of a BD-RE disc, it asks for a "writable disc". Thinking the brand of media might not be compatible (Optical Quantum) I tried the same thing with a Sony brand BD-RE and received the same "Please insert a writable disc" message. Am I doing something wrong?

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DanVM wrote on 8/22/2010, 2:51 PM
Hmmmm... I just made an ISO and right now am burning the BD-RE using ImgBurn. I noticed that it required the disk be "formatted" first. Perhaps that's why DVDA5 couldn't write to it? You'd think DVDA5 would have suggested that! Whether or not it works remains to be seen...
Birk Binnard wrote on 8/23/2010, 8:08 AM
This is interesting. My situation is very similar to the OP: I have Win7-64, DVDAS5, and a Blu-Ray writer (mine is an LG, not HP.) I also have a Sony R/W Blu-Ray disk that I use to proof things before committing to a write-once Blu-Ray.

Usually I use DVDAS5 to create an ISO image that I store on my external disk drive. Then I use the built-in Win7 Burn function to write the ISO file to the Sony R/W disk. But the last time I did this Win7 said I needed to "Insert a writeable disk." I had formatted the disk first before attempting to write to it.

After several attempts at using Win7 (including reformatiing, copying some junk files to the disk to ensure it was writeable, etc.) to burn the ISO file I gave up and tried DVDAS5. It worked perfectly. This makes me think there are some differences in the way Win7 sees different Blu-Ray drives and/or disks.

I wonder if this is going to become just as confusing as the AVCHD on DVD media has become. That thread now hat 76 messages on it.
BlackMax wrote on 8/23/2010, 9:11 AM
I'm betting DanVM is successful using ImgBurn. Beside doing any burn function, and doing it well, it features some very useful logging capabilities including graphs.

I use ImgBurn exclusively in lieu of *any* application which purports to have disc-write capability.