dvd's with printable surface issue

Do you have another computer you can try the media on? That would rule out the media part of it.

icrude001,

When you burn a DVD (or a CD, for that matter), your drive spins it up only enough to be able to write to it at the chosen speed. And, any drive will always write considerably slower than it can read.

When your drive reads a DVD, on the other hand, it will spin it up to the point where the transfer speed is appropriate for the bus to which the drive is connected. In other words, it will spin it much faster when reading than when writing.

Now, optical drives do make a good bit of noise when they spin a disk up; this is normal. The question is, is this a "normal spin up" noise, or is it something you need to worry about? The best way to find out would be to try some other, already written, disk in your drive. A commercial DVD would be fine, or maybe a game DVD. Is the noise produced by one of these when they are being read significantly different than that produced by your "printable" DVDs?

Scott

hey, dunno if you ever solved this, but i am having exactly the same issue. i am using a macbook pro, and it's only the Memorex printable DVD that causes this problem. in addition to the scary loud noises coming from the DVD drive, it also hangs for a while and i have to wait a minute or so before the spinning comes to a stop before i can eject the DVD.

occasionally, the laptop will read the DVD. if it's blank, i can even begin to burn to it, but it invariably fails after a minute or so of burning, and the DVD is rendered useless.

i am not having this problem with non-printable DVDs. i guess a solution is to use non-printable DVDs only.

Another good idea is to not use Memorex media for anything other than drink coasters.