Ihas burner issues

[RouseyUK]

I think my original iHAS324 B has given up on me finnaly as the quality of the burns have been slowly falling and now will not pass the kprobe tests. I went out and got myself a new iHAS524 D but i can not get it to complete a quality burn. I am using the burnerMAX payload tool and imgBurn to burn my discs. I have tried the drive in my PC and on my laptop using my usbpro but still no quality burns. Does anyone have any ideas what the issue could be?

[cunny]

Can you adjust the eprom settings? Are you performing OPC before burns?

[felix11]

I have an IHAS524, when it was new the quality of burns was poor. Now it has built up a large number of records thru the 'smartburn' facility being set (and NOT EVER clearing the OPC history) the burn quality has improved a lot. So perhaps you have just got to percevere with it while it decides the best write strategy. Also, I do not use kprobe, I use nero disc quality to check burns. I have noted that I can have up to about 7 on the PI failures and the game will still install and play just fine (but I would not use these discs for online play), so perhaps you are expecting perfection when a reasonable burn will do.

[RouseyUK]

Thanks for the response, I have tried changing the settings and clearing the opc but very little difference is made. I haven't tried reading the discs in a Xbox they went straight in the bin. The PI failures keep coming in around 10 so I have no idea. I am going to pick up some more discs on my way home as it might be a bad batch of discs

[cunny]

Just make sure you get verbs. The settings i posted always worked well for me

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums...z-read-266619/

[felix11]

DO NOT KEEP CLEARING THE OPC!! - smartburn relies on this to build up a history of your burns to decide the best write strategy. OK, you will waste a few burns while it 'learns' (remember it is a new drive) but eventually it will settle down and produce usable discs. Patience is needed here - don't keep changing the settings, that won't help, just keep to 4x write, perform OPC before write and smartburn on and eventually it will come right.

[RouseyUK]

Thanks for your help, finally worked out what it was. It was a bad rip of the game