Noise during DVD burn - rejects

I have been burning my family movie for the holiday over the past two weeks. Have done about 14 DVD's thus far, only a few more to go. When I initialize the burn sequence and as the DVD spins up I hear a noise like a light friction or scratching. After a few minutes it cuts out and spits out the DVD mentioning a media error. But after 4 in a row I have a hard time believing that. When I enter a music CD to play I don't hear this. Any iDeas??
Thanks

That noise seems to be normal when these Matshita slot-loading drives are trying to recognize blank media. I've heard it on my G4 iBook and on my G5 iMac.
What's happening is the drive fails to recognize the media and ejects it. The reason for this is probably a firmware issue, but there's nothing you can do about that. You can try re-inserting the disc to give it another chance or try a different disc from the spindle. You might also try a different brand or speed of blank media.
Sometimes it can be helpful to shut down your Mac, wait a minute and restart (don't just do a restart). This should reset the drive.

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Hey there people of the orchard!
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Just random shooting and scanning the forum:
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HA.
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it was only burning at 4x even though 47x was requested.
That's a issue discussed in the past.
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I tried many times and even though I choose "TSSTcorp CDDVDW SE-S084D", iTunes keeps trying to use the internal drive. Then I wondered if iTunes perhaps was displaying the wrong labels for the drives, so I tried to instead selecting "MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E", hoping that iTunes would use the external drive. No dice. iTunes still used the internal drive. By the way, the Samsung shipped with the TS00 version of the firmware - I upgraded the firmware to version TS01 (the latest), but that didn't help with my iTunes problem.
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Known issue? Can anyone verify this? Any other ideas for a software method for convincing iTunes to use the external DVD writer?
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I use the console to watch for errors when burning CDs. The console can be found in the utilities directory under applications. I also use the system profiler to see if it reports the second drive seeing the empty disk, however your comment about being able to write playlist info says its seeing it and writing to the usb disk.
It maybe that iTunes doesn't support the USB DVD drive you have, or try moving to another USB port, preferable a high speed port, usb2. Again watch the console for messages being reported during the burn, buffer under or over runs, or read/write errors.
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Hello,
when inserting (tried several) blank DVD into my iMac DVD burner, it spits it out after a few seconds ...
error message in the logs
Jul 4 04:43:46 Bazounga kernel[0]: disk2: alignment error.
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When inserting a blank CD it recognises it but trying to burn a "burnable folder" is fails with error message 0x8002006E)
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same kind of error appeared previously with DVD's
But commercial CD's and DVD can be read after some "hesitation noise"
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Normally this error message is caused by incorrect Format or some of the cheaper incompatible Brands of Media. I suggest you use this.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
I also suggest you use DVD-R Media.
it is the most recognized all around.
Be sure when you buy that your optical drive will burn at the speed it was designed to use.
Many of the higher speed media like 16X will not work on older computers.
They will give you error messages
Here is another good link that explains it.
http://www.videohelp.com/dvd
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*Errors were found during the burning process:*
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Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,2
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DVD Studio Pro: Burning to DVD-R (MCC 01RG20) media with DAO strategy in MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E ZA0E via ATAPI.
DVD Studio Pro: Requested burn speed was 4x, actual burn speed is 4x.
DVD Studio Pro: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
DVD Studio Pro: Write (10), block: 0, count: 64 -> 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error
DVD Studio Pro: Burn failed, Fri Oct 23 22:57:08 2009
DVD Studio Pro: Burn sense: 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error
DVD Studio Pro: Burn error: 0x8002006D The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.

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