Trying to post again.....

[A-Cman]

Do you mean the serial number of the disc? (the number located in the center of the disc)

Other than that, can't really find any numbers.

The ones I have used most (about 500 or so) is Durabrand CD-R's. (80 min. 700mb.) However, since this has happened, I have also tried Sony and TDK CD-R's, and a Sony CD-RW.

Tonight I discovered that a short CD (10 or less tracks, 30 minutes total time) will burn sucessfully. However, a long CD (60 minutes or so) always gets an error. I even went into msconfig and disabled the startup before burning.

[A-Cman]

P.S.

It should also be noted that even when duplicating a longer CD, no matter how many tracks are on the origional, every single track copies to the back-up disc exept the last track. However, once the last track starts writing, the disc "spins down" (Meaning I can hear the disc in the drive slow way down" and it just stops and errors out. And it always happens after 20 percent. Tonight one got as far as 98 percent before failing.

When I hear the drive spin up after inserting the back-up (Blank) CD, it does not slow down while writing any of the other tracks (which tells me it is working properly.) It is only when it is writing the "last" track that it fails, weather it be a 13 track, 15 track or even 20 track disc.

[A-Cman]

UPDATE:


I called Plextor today and explained everything that is going on. They told me to go to the plextor website and download the updated firmware for the drive and it should solve the problem.

I downloaded and installed the update, and so far have made about 5 burns, all of which have been sucessful, in both roxio and in microstudio.

I guess there were a bunch of people having problems, as the firmware was just realeased on may 20.

Hopefully from here on out everything will go good.