Error: -36?

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Error: -36?

I've been experiencing lots of problems burning some dual layer discs, with the majority failing to be playable. I burnt the discs on my Mac Pro and put the problems down to out of date software, so I upgraded to the latest versions of Toast (8.x) and Dragon Burn (4.x). Although things seemed to improve, I now find that the resulting DVDs can be read okay on my G4s internal drive (Pioneer 110), but not on my external FW drive (NEC 3540A). The external drive always returns rhe following error message:- DVD Player encountered a system error - Error: -36.

Anyone know what a -36 error is and maybe its relevance?

Single layer and original dual layer discs play okay, only thr dual layer copies seem to cause this problem.

Mac Pro - G4 733 - G3 Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 1, 2007 4:15 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 1, 2007 5:37 AM in response to Martyn Cottrell

Here's the definition. It's a File System Error -36 ioErr I/O error. But the definition doesn't provide a clue to a solution.

 Cheers, Tom

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Answer 2

Feb 1, 2007 6:24 AM in response to Texas Mac Man

Hmmm.... some times Toast and Dragon Burn have complained of an unstable connection, but rebooting the system has usually overcome this.

It would be easy to put this down to a poor quality/faulty external FW controller if it wasn't for the fact that it only seems to produce the -36 error on these dual layer discs.

I'm going to try burning another disc using another brand of media, as I suspect that so many failures may be down to poor media. The batch I just used were Traxdata, but the Verbatim I had left over, worked first time. At the moment I've got some RiDiscs, which use the Rytek dye and I've always found Rytek discs to be reliable.

G4 733 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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