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" Internal target failure "

bonjour,

Can somebody tell me what "internal target failure" means when man want to write divx films on rewritable DVD -RW with toast titanium.

I have this complete message . ( with all the three new boxes of ten DVD)

sense key : harware error
code : 0,44 ,0D9
Internal target failure

until this day éverything was ok with toast .

tank you very much.

Mac Pro 3Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.4), Mac Pro 3 Ghz quad Xéon 4G Ram N Vidia GEforce 8800 GT 8800 256 MB

Posted on Sep 13, 2008 1:01 PM

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Sep 16, 2008 5:02 AM in response to abdelpiano

It could be the discs you are using. Make sure you get good quality discs.

Could also be the speed you're trying to burn at. Try setting it at "best speed".

Could also be the drive itself. Have you checked for new firmware (check for instance http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/faq.lasso)? Perhaps it needs cleaning.

Some users have reported that trashing Toast's plist file helps (i believe it should be at Finder/Library/Preferences/Roxio Toast Prefs and com.roxio.toast.plist).

Someone reported that closing and restarting Toast after every burn helps.

Can you burn from Finder or iTunes for example?

What if you make a disc image first and then burn that?

/p

Message was edited by: pullman

Nov 2, 2008 2:30 PM in response to pullman

Okay, I am at my wit's end. I have been burning DVD-Rs for years, mainly with Toast. I am on Titanium 7.0.2 and have never had any problems, as I always burn from a disc image first (which I pre-test). I use highly recommended Taiyo-Yuden DVD-Rs, varying speeds. Suddenly, I am getting the error message everyone seems to talk about, here and in other forums on the Web (right in the beginning after Toast is done filling cache but before starting burn):

The drive reported an error:
Sense Key = HARDWARE ERROR
Sense Code = 0x44, 0xD9
INTERNAL TARGET FAILURE

The only thing I can think of is that, although I have been using OS X 10.4.11 for a long time on my iBook G4, I just recently figured it'd be okay to upgrade my Y2K PowerMac G4/500 to Tiger too. Otherwise, nothing has changed with the discs or Toast version. I never used my iBook to burn since it's burner is a combo only and I never hooked my Plextor ext. DVD burner up. However, it has always worked on my PowerMac under Panther with my Pioner DVR-105 drive, and come to think of it, with my friends iMac G5 running the Apple-installed Superdrive on Tiger, so don't think that could be it.

As far as the site about flashing my DVR-105, I don't see how I know if I'd suddenly need to flash it (maybe to update to work with Tiger, since I wasn't using this burner and firmware version with Tiger, just with Panther and the iMac G5 with Tiger but not this Pioneer burner). I can't find how I know what revision of firmware I need for a Pioneer DVR-105 running under Tiger. Current firmware is 1.30 which is what has been running all along under Panther. I'm not even sure if the OS upgrade to Tiger is the problem or not. I don't want to "flash" anything I'm not certain about.

If anyone can answer these questions and help I'd be grateful. I'm not an idiot but not a regular user of Terminal or more technical things described on that XLR8YourMac forum, such as: http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/action.lasso?-database=faq.fp3&-layout=FaqList&-re sponse=answer.faq.lasso&-recordID=34189&-search

If upgrading Toast is the answer (from 7.0.2 to current 7.1.3) or re-flashing my DVR-105 now that I'm using it with Tiger, please let me know. I don't want to screw up something that has been working for years, and I know it is not the discs cuz I tried all different speeds of the best brands. Thanks in advance.

Sidenote: I tried burning with Disk Utility and it has a similar response:

Unable to burn image. The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.

Looks like maybe a problem with this drive now working with Tiger 10.4.11. Again, do I need to update the drive (flash it)? Is there a place that says what revision number you need for a certain version Pioneer drive with a certain Mac OS X version?

" Internal target failure "

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