Why can't I burn to a DVD+RW? SEE ERROR MESSAGE

beatnik wrote on 2/8/2003, 1:54 PM

When I burn to a DVD+R it burns ok, BUT when I try to burn to a DVD+RW with data
on it, it warns me that the data will be overwritten, when I hit to burn it starts
off then the drawer ejects the DVD and I get the following error?

Please help, I like to test burn onto a DVD+RW before I burn to a DVD+R as I hate
$10.00 coasters.

'SFMMCX'-(17)
'atapi'-(1)
-'SONY DVD RW DRU-500A 1.0g'-(1)
Module sfmmcx.cpp Line 1158
An illegal request was received.
The command is not allowed in the current operational mode.

Status: 00020202
Command: 04 11 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense: 05 2c 00
Info: 00 00 00 00
Specific: 00 00 00
Extra: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Comments

dvdfool wrote on 2/8/2003, 6:02 PM

FWIW, I've been able to burn DVD+RW on my HP200i.

However, I did read that several other people were having similar problems as you when using the Pioneer DVR-A04 and DVR-A05 drives to burn DVD-R disks. I thought they said the problem was related to firewire networking, but not sure.

I realize this probably isn't much help, but thought it might give you some clues.

prairiedogpics wrote on 2/8/2003, 6:51 PM

I use the Sony DRU 500A (as indicated in your error message) with a Sony DVD+RW disc all the time. I burn my projects to it for testing purposes before I commit a write-once-only disc. Never had a problem. Do you have the latest firmware version for the Sony drive (version 1.0F, I believe). Are you using a branded DVD+RW disc, or generic? Is there something you burned to the disc that left it "OPEN?", as if it's waiting to be closed before something else can burn over it (just a wild guess)?
Dan

AlexB wrote on 2/8/2003, 7:01 PM

If the Sony is connected via firewire then it's the XP network over firewire problem. Turn that off and it should work all right. Never had troubles with my Sony burning +RWs directly connected to the ATAPI interface.
:D A.

DanielH wrote on 2/8/2003, 7:06 PM

Betnik,

Although I sorry that you are having problems, I am somewhat reasurred that someone else is having the same problem as the 2 of us in the burnning coasters post... and that you are having it with a Sony drive may indicate that is is a software issue rather than hardware... I sent a tech request to SF but have not heard back from them yet. A side note is that I have tried my A05 internal and and a external via firewire with no change in results, But if I hook up the same burner to my laptop and burn I have no problems... go figure.

Dan

PS I use Mitsumi Disks and are higly rated..

Chanimal wrote on 2/8/2003, 7:41 PM

I created a project with several mpeg2 videos. The first time I tried to Prepare DVD and Burn the machine crashed and rebooted (I don't know at what stage since I was out of the room at the time).

I tried the process again (for another 2 1/2 hours). This time it reformated several videos, compressed the audio, and got through the preparation stage. However, when burning to the DVD it finished one portion quickly and was done. I didn't think it had burned that fast so I selected "details" and got the message below:

'SFMMCX'-(17)
'ultra'-(0)
-'SONY DVD+RW DRU-120A 1.13'-(2)
Module sfmmcx.cpp Line 1158
The command completed successfully.
No sense.

Status: 00000000
Command:
Sense: 00 00 00
Info: 00 00 00 00
Specific: 00 00 00
Extra:

The DVD does not play. It apparently has some data on it since I received the "data on disk" warning. I selected OK to burn again but received the same message as above and the disk ejected.

Different error than yours, but along the same vain. No problems burning dvd's prior.

It appears to be dead in the water.

Suggestions?

Ron Lucas wrote on 2/8/2003, 8:13 PM

I'm having a similar problem.

Buring on my HP DVD200i, DVDA says it will overwrite data on the disk. However, upon completion, there is nothing new written to the disk. And I get a successful burn message from DVDA. Two other DVD+RWs I have with old data seem to work fine when DVDA overwrites the disk. Just this one DVD+RW is having trouble. What's strange is that DVDA says it completed without errors, but nothing is ever burned to this DVD+RW. I suspect the DVD+RW may have problems, but DVDA isn't reporting it correctly or something.

Ron

mdotnet wrote on 2/8/2003, 9:05 PM

Maybe I was just lucky, But I burned to a DVD-RW (Pioneer) on our A04 with no problems at all. It overwrote the data that was already on the disc, and was fine when I checked it in the morning.

Hopefully that wasn't a fluke.

Chanimal wrote on 2/10/2003, 9:48 PM

I have tried 4 times and DVDA does not burn to the Sony DVD 120 +R/+RW. However, I am able to take the two directories that are created during the prepare stage and copy the contents to my DVD via the included DVD data burning software that came with the drive. The DVD works just fine, only DVDA doesn't burn properly (although my drive is listed as supported on SF's Website).