I have an HP DH-6AYH113C p/n 5188-7536 super multi DVD burner. It has
burned about 600-700 DVDs. It is now burning almost as many coasters as
good disks. In the past it did not seem to be media sensitive as most all
brands worked with very few failures. I am currently using Malaysian made
Verbatim -R.

Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID MCC 03RG20
Application id NERO BURNING ROM
Format Capacity 4.15GB(4.45GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 16.0x 22160KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 16.0x 22160KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 12.0x 16620KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 6.0x 8310KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 09
2x Speed OPC power 0B
2x Write Strategy field 1 14 87 78 90
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 08
4x Speed OPC power 13
4x Write Strategy field 1 0D 11 0C 08
4x Write Strategy field 2 95 07 0E 0B
4x Write Strategy field 3 A0 00 20 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 06
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 1A
4x Write Strategy field 4 17 86 67 85
4x Write Strategy field 5 99 AB 3A 83 20 32
4x Write Strategy field 6 00 00 D0 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 212DFFh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 00 6C 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 85 0D 0E .l...@....R.....
00000010 88 9A 80 00 03 4D 43 43 20 30 33 00 04 52 47 32 .....MCC 03..RG2
00000020 30 20 20 00 05 88 80 00 00 00 02 00 06 09 0B 14 0 .............


Is it that the burner is reaching the end of its life or do I have other
problems?
Help/advice appreciated, John.

Machinist60 wrote:
you always burn at a certain speed or have you tried slower speeds?

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On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:13:25 -0400, "Machinist60"
<e_john_wilson.no.spam. (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

I've had about 3 or 4 CD or DVD burners fail over the years, and none
of them first started making coasters. They just stopped working at
all, every one of them, (including the damn one in my Thinkpad
notebook, which would cost a fortune to replace.)

Have you confirmed the same experience with different media?

"Machinist60" <e_john_wilson.no.spam. (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

IMHO I'd say you've reached the end of service life. I've gone
through 4 sets of DVD burners (2 identical setups) and every time, I
would get gradual failures. Either at the end of the burn from Nero
or when I do a validation play back - problems are often at the last
track/end of the disk. I usually buy burners that are on special at
newegg.com and these are less than $30 US.

If you want to squeeze more life out of the burner, try a lower speed.

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