Leopard not burning CD/DVD media correctly?

I've only tried to burn one CD so far, it seemed to work OK then threw an media error at the end, the disc is still blank/writeable ... (Verbatim media as always)

Just burned single and dual layer DVDs with no problems (was fast too)

Two CD-R's just burned fine

I've just got a new MacBook Pro 15" and have installed Leopard. I didn't try burning disks before upgrading, but the two Verbatim 8 x DVD+R DL disks I have tried so far have given me the same error at 49% completion. If anyone finds a fix for this, please let me know...

David.

I don't know if this will help any, but you didn't say what software you're using.

Apparently there is an issue with Roxio Toast 7.12 and Leopard. I've seen reports that reinstalling from the disc 7.04 - or whatever the original version was- fixes the problem. Apparently Toast 8 is fine.

Best of luck.

I too had this problem with Roxio's Popcorn 2. I solved it by re-installing Popcorn. Now its working fine.

Is it leopard or is it my drive?

I recently had my optical drive replaced and I have a feeling that apple replaced it with a non-DL drive. I can not seem to burn a Dual Layer Disk. I purchased 3 types of DVD+R/DL Disc and none seem to be working via finder or disk utility.

Per my Apple System Profiler

MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857:

Firmware Revision: HAEA
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds

I am trying to create a backup of my Leopard DVD via these instructions:

http://blog.smalldog.com/article/450/use-disk-utility-to-copy-cds-dvds

Full text:
OS 10.4’s Disk Utility makes it easy to make an exact copy of a CD or DVD that can be stored on a hard drive as a disk image, or burned to a CD or DVD for future use. First, insert the CD or DVD you want to backup into your Mac. Next, drag the icon of the CD or DVD to the Disc Utility application (which is usually stored in the Applications Folder > Utilities Folder.) In other words, drag and drop the CD or DVD icon on top of the Disk Utility icon.

Disk Utility will launch, and then it will immediately open a window asking you to name the new disk image, and where to save it. Go ahead and save the image to your desktop.

In the Image Format drop-down menu, choose DVD/CD master. This is especially important if you want to burn a copy of the disk, and have it function as an exact clone of original CD or DVD you hope to backup.

Now click “Save.”
A new disk image will be created on your Desktop, with the extension ”.cdr,” It may take a few minutes to create this file.

If you click on the disk image, you’ll see it works just like a CD or DVD. You can store this new disk image on a hard drive. If you want to burn it to CD or DVD, you should again use Disk Utility. Otherwise, you’ll only be burning a copy of the disk image, and not an actual CD or DVD master.

To burn a CD or DVD master, open Disk Utility and look for the disk image of your CD or DVD, on the left side of the window. Usually it’s at the bottom of the list of drives. Now, simply select the image, and then click “Burn.” Follow the directions to burn the disk.

This is a great way to back up expensive software titles and game titles. Many games that require a disk to run will run off of the disk image – great for traveling.

I would also like to add to this....

I am having huge burn problems under leopard. Basically every 2nd disc I burn comes with the unreadable disc error - I am using high quality media that worked PERFECTLY under Tiger; not a single burn/read error the whole time having it. Yet I have a pile of unreadable discs on my floor which leopard spit out as bad.

I am thinking there are burn issues in Leopard with the Finder. This REALLY really *****. I have a whole slew of Automator actions for my photography workflow - and burning discs was part of this. Apple can you please figure a resolve to this issue.

Try using Toast.
I had problems even with Tiger burning some DVDs using the Apple SW.
I would opt for Toast, or if you don't need the whole thing, Popcorn.
It also compresses DVDs a bit to get some double-sided disks to fit onto a standard DVD.

Hi,
I just upgraded to leopard. Never had problems burning DVD's in tiger but i now cannot complete a burn on verbatim DVD-R discs. I get the same error:
Burning the disc failed because communication to the disc drive failed.
Have not yet tried toast.

Im having the same issues. after upgrading to Leopard its giving me burn errors, but the burns seem to come out fine most of the time even when given an error.

Ditto... unable to burn anything since Leopard. Same CD's burned great under Tiger.

Reset PRAM as per a post on the Leopard boards.

I also seem to be having problems burning CD/DVDs in Leopard.

I'm using a MacBook Pro, which worked fine for burning discs in Tiger.

Now, with Leopard, when I insert a blank disc, nothing happens (in Tiger, a dialog popped asking what to do).

- Opening Disk Utility by hand doesn't show the disc and allow burning.
- In Finder, I created a "Burn Folder", and tried to burn it, but got a message telling me to insert the blank disc.

Basically, Leopard is not recognizing my blank discs. (I tried several discs to make sure it wasn't a media problem. I tried both CD-R and DVD-R media, both from 50 disc spindles which I had burned 20+ discs from before).

Please all read this topic: http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Board=Forum32&Number=835555

I had the same burning errors and I really thought my disc drive was broken. (It even made weird sounds!)
Above topic on macfixitforums suggested to create a new account to test burning on a clean account. And believe it or not, this worked for me.

Now I know that this issue is caused by software, i only need to find the solution for my default account. Anyone?

Adding to the list... Similar problems here with Leopard. DVD's fail to burn with the 80020022 error, atleast when trying to burn around 3GB+. CD-R's seems to burn fine o far...

Sounds good that this doesn't seem to be a hardware failure (lets hope 10.5.1 will fix it)