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[Gazc0igne]

8/10 of my verbatim 8x mk-003 discs failed to verify or install to hdd at varying percentages when burned at 4X very few actually worked out of a 25 spool i got 20 duff discs til i dropped speeds

10/10 of the same discs verify and install to hdd 100% when burned at 2.4x

an extra 15 mins per disc for me is fine, im not pumping out hundreds of copies to care about the extra time, im only burning my own games

[dougiegillam]

QUOTE(Gazc0igne @ Nov 8 2011, 02:33 PM)

8/10 of my verbatim 8x mk-003 discs failed to verify or install to hdd at varying percentages when burned at 4X very few actually worked out of a 25 spool i got 20 duff discs til i dropped speeds

10/10 of the same discs verify and install to hdd 100% when burned at 2.4x

an extra 15 mins per disc for me is fine, im not pumping out hundreds of copies to care about the extra time, im only burning my own games

Strange! None of my verbs have failed to burn and verify MK 003 at 4 speed, i have Liteon IHAS124B cross flashed to IHAS524. The only failures have been Aone plus even after various settings and Mediaspeededit, i'm now waiting for some riteks to arrive so i can try then at 2.4. Ive already prepared the Liteon IHAS firmware ready and will post my results here.

[opencube]

WOnder if anyone can help?

I have run out of main mother board SATA connection, however I have 3 available on my VIA PCI SATA card i use for my flashing purposes.

Obviously I cannot have VIA drivers installed as they conflict with Jungleflasher.

Can this card work with my new iHAS124 drive without VIA drivers?

Or will I have to install the VIA drivers to use with this burner, then uninstall them when I have to do any flashing?

Thanks

[angrykid]

all I have are 001 discs @ home and when I burn them at the recommended settings I get crap results graph from kprobe and sometimes errors on install to hard drive.
I force all the settings on in the lite-on adv. tab in imgburn and force them at a steady 4x and kprobe is happy and install to hdd is happy.

going any higher than 4x is error city for kprobe

[bjpatty23]

Will this drive work?

iHAS424 B GL15

[DWells55]

Hey guys, I was wonmdering if someone could help me out here. I purchased an iHAS224 and flashed it and was getting bad burns with MKM-003 media no matter what setting I used. Always way too high in kprobe. I tried crossflashing to 624 and then reflashing iXtreme Burner and still got bad burns. I ran out and bought some MKM-001 media and, while slightly better at the layer break, it spikes above 100 elsewhere for PI and PIF in the 6s. I've also tried the drive in another PC with similar results.

So I bought myself an iHAS 324B and flashed it. Tested with MKM-001 and MKM-003 and still getting bad burns. The discs are made in Singapore, so supposedly the better discs.

Anyone have any idea what the hell is going on?

[angrykid]

you're not being very specific with your settings... which advanced lite-on only options are you enabling or disabling and what burn speeds you're running at.  its best to set a relatively high buffer in imgburn and make sure the image file being burned is not fragmented and the disk drive is not in use by any other programs.
I can watch my burns in real time and tell if they're going to be crap or not depending on how the speed fluctuates.

[DWells55]

QUOTE(angrykid @ Nov 10 2011, 11:24 PM)

you're not being very specific with your settings... which advanced lite-on only options are you enabling or disabling and what burn speeds you're running at.  its best to set a relatively high buffer in imgburn and make sure the image file being burned is not fragmented and the disk drive is not in use by any other programs.
I can watch my burns in real time and tell if they're going to be crap or not depending on how the speed fluctuates.

I've tried many combinations of Online Hypertuning/Force Hypertuning/Smartburn/Overspeed in the EEPROM along with OPC and BurnPROOF in ImgBurn to no avail. Six MKM-001 crap burns and 15+ MKM-003s. Tried the supposedly foolproof LightningUK settings (Force HT on/Smartburn on/Overspeed off/Online HT off and then 4x OPC off in Imgburn) with MKM-003 in both drives in both computers with no luck. One is running XP x86 with pretty much nothing on it (MSE disabled, no internet connection, no apps running, ImgBurn in realtime, tons of free drive space) and the other Win7 x64 with no foreground tasks and little in the background, 0% fragmentation on the drive and 40% free.

The MKM-003s are usually great until the layer break, where they've spiked from anywhere between 150 up to 2000 (yes, two thousand) for PI. The MKM-001s are higher everywhere else, but spike maybe 4 percent of the way in up to about 80, then 120 at the layer break, and then have a consistently worse second layer than gradually rises to a spike of 120 at the end. Same results in two different drives in two different PCs.

I refuse to believe that I got two bad drives/two bad batches of media, but I also know the PCs are good systems. I followed the guide for flashing perfectly (run upgrade, backup EEPROM and flash, write new flash), so I don't think it's user error, either. Really not sure what to make of this.

[japodude]

QUOTE(DWells55 @ Nov 11 2011, 05:46 AM)

I've tried many combinations of Online Hypertuning/Force Hypertuning/Smartburn/Overspeed in the EEPROM along with OPC and BurnPROOF in ImgBurn to no avail. Six MKM-001 crap burns and 15+ MKM-003s. Tried the supposedly foolproof LightningUK settings (Force HT on/Smartburn on/Overspeed off/Online HT off and then 4x OPC off in Imgburn) with MKM-003 in both drives in both computers with no luck. One is running XP x86 with pretty much nothing on it (MSE disabled, no internet connection, no apps running, ImgBurn in realtime, tons of free drive space) and the other Win7 x64 with no foreground tasks and little in the background, 0% fragmentation on the drive and 40% free.

The MKM-003s are usually great until the layer break, where they've spiked from anywhere between 150 up to 2000 (yes, two thousand) for PI. The MKM-001s are higher everywhere else, but spike maybe 4 percent of the way in up to about 80, then 120 at the layer break, and then have a consistently worse second layer than gradually rises to a spike of 120 at the end. Same results in two different drives in two different PCs.

I refuse to believe that I got two bad drives/two bad batches of media, but I also know the PCs are good systems. I followed the guide for flashing perfectly (run upgrade, backup EEPROM and flash, write new flash), so I don't think it's user error, either. Really not sure what to make of this.

Try going to Device Manager in windows and find your sata storage drivers and update them, when asked to search, choose to install from list, and install standard sata drivers.

this works for my jungleflasher too. lol

[DWells55]

QUOTE(membre999 @ Nov 11 2011, 08:39 AM)

@dwells55: have you tried writing at 2.4x?

Tried 2.4x and 4x with the MKM-003 and 2.4x with the MKM-001 media. No dice. Drivers are fully up-to-date on both systems I've tested on. I spent last night fiddling around with different settings on both drives and MKM-001 media to see if there was anything I missed, but still didn't come anywhere near an acceptable burn.

[funksoulbrother]

QUOTE(DWells55 @ Nov 11 2011, 05:46 AM)

I've tried many combinations of Online Hypertuning/Force Hypertuning/Smartburn/Overspeed in the EEPROM along with OPC and BurnPROOF in ImgBurn to no avail. Six MKM-001 crap burns and 15+ MKM-003s. Tried the supposedly foolproof LightningUK settings (Force HT on/Smartburn on/Overspeed off/Online HT off and then 4x OPC off in Imgburn) with MKM-003 in both drives in both computers with no luck.

Did you clear the OPC history before trying Lightning UK's settings?

I'm using a 224 cross-flashed to a 624 and MKM-003 discs. I was initially getting great burns, but then I tried to burn a game yesterday and I was getting coaster after coaster - crap KProbe scans and uncorrectable errors. I cleared the OPC history and switched to using Lightning UK's recommended settings and now my KProbe scans look like this: -

[rune-san]

I too have tried almost ever combination (starting with the originally recommend settings) with mkm-001 discs and am getting better but far from good enough. At recommended settings on my 124 flashed to 524 i was getting a PI of 300 max and PIF of 6. I then removed the Daemon Tools SPTD driver and PI went down to 110 average and PIF doubled to 12! Ive continued to fiddle with settings but cant get below a PI of 110 and a PIF of 8. Lot of coasters so far All have verified at 100% in Imgburn though

[DWells55]

QUOTE(funksoulbrother @ Nov 12 2011, 11:03 PM)

Did you clear the OPC history before trying Lightning UK's settings?

Yup, cleared the OPC history each time I changed a setting in the EEPROM. I really think it's possible I've just gotten two bad drives. I think I might pick up another one, another batch of MKM-003s, and install and flash it in a third computer and see how it goes. If it still doesn't work I'll just consider myself cursed and get an xk3y or something.

[rune-san]

I finally got my burner sorted out with my MKM-001 Singapore media. I hope this might help out people who are still trying to get their MKM-001's burning correctly. I understand things are different for everyone but if it helps anyone then its worth it. This has been frustrating and I'm sure it is for many others.

Take a look at my first burn with MAX's suggested settings:


Absolutely worthless after the layer break. I keep fooling around with settings and not getting anywhere. I read around that the SPTD driver installed by Daemon Tools can fudge things up. So I uninstalled it using duplex-secure's removal tool from their website. Now, same suggested settings but with SPTD uninstalled:


PI comes WAY down but PIF doubles!! Obviously SPTD was having a huge affect on burn quality in my system. So from there I keep trying discs and get better and better even when all settings are selected in ImgBurn and the EEPROM tool:


At this point PIF is halved back to what it was pre-SPTD and PI is down a little too. Both are unacceptable still. Completely a wash after the layer break. I feel thoroughly out of options at this point. After making so many coasters at this point, I figure to hell with it, and burn these MKM-001 discs at 4x. The results are staggering:


An almost perfect burn. PI Max of 18, and a PIF Max of 3.

To you all that are still having trouble with your MKM-001 discs, try burning at 4x with all settings enabled! I understand the nature of this and therefore have no intentions of saying "this will fix your problems!" But the difference was an order of magnitude better for me than at 2.4x. I guess slower isn't always better.

[angrykid]

I wonder if this is just coincidence but could burning at 4x and reading back the disc in kprobe at 4x create those awesome results.... ?
has anyone tried a slower readback speed in kprobe with a slower burned disc ?