me, muttering to myself as I create an ImgBurn Forums account: *"you know what's going to happen, right? the moment you try to recreate the issue for evidence and screenshots for your post, it's going to magically start working. You know that, right?"
ImgBurn, the moment I hit Burn after creating the account: Operation Completed Successfully! :3
It burned two DVD-RW discs just fine. It burned one CD-RW disc just fine. I went to burn a second CD-RW disc, and witnessed the baffling error:
Failed to write sectors -150 - -119 - Reason: Command Sequence Error
It was trying - and failing, unsurprisingly - to write to sectors which do not exist. Discs start at sector ZERO. They do not, my dear ImgBurn, start at negative one hundred and fifty. Yeah I'm not surprised you had issues with burning to the first 32 sectors of non-existent space.
I looked through all my settings and could not find anything. I tried three different discs and it did not work. I wondered if the image I was using could be fucked up, so I went back to the image I burned to the first CD-RW, it did not work. I erased the discs, both Quick and Full erasures. It did not work.
Except this time, I did a Quick Erase, go to attempt the burn again, and it just worked? Like. I don't know. Maybe ImgBurn got into some weird null state but after enough time and enough attempts it just started working properly again?
I wonder why we as a society have moved away from burnable optical media.
Failed to Read Sectors 2432 - 2463 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error
Maybe every single CD-RW I own is bad? Maybe my fancy $300 BD-RE drive from Pioneer doesn't like CD's?
I gave my $300 desktop drive a brand new, never-burned CD-RW and it slurped it up just fine, burned, verified, all that. Still hates all my other discs.
Took the original disc that was causing the errors, popped it in my Thinkpad X60s from 2006 and it's burning the exact same image to the disc just fine, not a care in the world. That little 32-bit, Windows 7 wonder is humming away getting uncomfortably hot to the touch but just happy to help, not a peep or even a hint of a complaint.
Starting to think that my $300 home theater enthusiast grade blu-ray drive from 2023 maybe, possibly, was not optimized for burning CD-RW's. I think that specific use case may have been a little low on Pioneer's list of priorities.
