[MacDV] Re: "The device drained its buffer without burn underrun > protection."

[Dennis R. Cohen]

On 12/11/05 at 8:03 AM, Norm Loomer <loomern at ripon.edu> transmitted the
following electronic message:

>
>I'm trying to use Disk Utility to burn copies of a DVD disk image. 
>Three times in a row--with two different blank DVDs--the disk has 
>ejected and I have received the message, "The device drained its buffer 
>without burn underrun protection." What does that mean, and what can I 
>do about it?
>
>I have logged out and back in and shut down all other applications. I 
>am using FujiFilm DVD-R media, up to 8x. I have an eMac with 768 MB of 
>SRAM. I have done this several times before without problem.
>
>I am on a deadline. Can anybody help?
>
>I read the digest, so a personal reply would be appreciated.
>

It could well be (probably is) the media in use. Fuji doesn't
manufacture their own media, but acquire it from other providers. My
experience with FujiFilm DVD-R media has been absolutely consistent in
my G5's A07 SuperDrive -- if it was manufactured in Taiwan, I always got
the errors you cite; however, if it was manufactured in Japan, 100%
success. The "bad" media was usable at 1x in my A04 SuperDrive in the
old G4 iMac (so, at least the rest of that spindle wasn't a complete
waste).

-- 
Dennis R. Cohen