[Ti] ILLEGAL REQUEST...INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT

[David DelMonte]

Trevor, if you cant figure it out, you may want to post to the MacDV  
group. They are very knowledgeable about DVD issues.

David




On Oct 22, 2005, at 6:31 PM, Dr Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

> Al-Powerbook, OS X 10.4.2
>
> I am making backups/archives of many of my files on to DVD using  
> Roxio Toast 6 Titanium 611.
>
> I made several this morning.
>
> When I was making a backup of my eyeTV files, I got this error  
> message:
>
>         The drive reported an error:
>         Sense Key = HARDWARE ERROR
>         Sense Code = 0x03
>
> then
>
>         The drive reported an error:
>         Sense Key = ILLEGAL REQUEST
>         Sense CoDe = 0x30, 0x05
>         CANNOT WRITE MEDIUM - INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT
>
> about 90% of the way through writing the DVD.
>
> It seems that 4.17 of the 4.2 Gb of files was in fact copied, and  
> the DVD works fine.  There are perhaps a few files not copied.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what these error codes mean, and their  
> true significance?
>
> I am using Imation DVD-R 8x but only burning at 1x.
>
> This happened when I put another DVD in and repeated the burn, so  
> it was not the DVD media (unless both are defective in the same way).
> I then tried one DVD from the bottom of the spindle, to see if it  
> is the same.  It was.  4 min 14' left to burn, same error message.
>
> Next, I tried reducing the size of the DVD content to just 4.0 Gb,  
> from 4,2.
> No problem....
>
> How do we explain that ?  Bug in Toast?
>
> regards,  Trevor
>
>