Writing to DLT problem

I'm trying to create a DLT from DVD Studio Pro 4.2 (running under Snow Leopard) and it recognizes that the drive is there however when I come to output it gets to the formatting stage, writing lead-in and does nothing! Has anyone else encountered this at all?
Thanks in advance for any help

Welcome to the Boards
Have not seen any issues about Snow Leopard and DLT drives yet, though there have been some issues from time to time in the past.
Some details on the set up (card, DLT drive, Computer, which version of DVD SP 4.2.x) may help, but Snow Leopard is still fairly new. Have you checked to see if there are new drivers for the card for Snow Leopard? How much room is on your hard drives? (Sometimes a drive may be full and can cause problems writing out...)
If you are on deadline and find yourself hitting a wall, something to check into while troubleshooting is whether the replication plant can take DDP off a hard drive (or DVD-R, though those are more risky.)
Some places will also write out projects to DLT for you and do some premastering checks, like dvdverification.com

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we are experiencing an very frustrating problem. we are burning a Dual Layer disk with a one hour video, and a slide show. We have followed all of the pointers listed here about compatible file types and audio files. When we go to burn the disk it goes through all the processes until we get to "Burn" and then it simply ejects our disk (we have tried several different blank disks) and it gives the following message, "Current operation: Writing lead-in..." . the progress bar keeps going but nothing happens. Even if we put the disk back in this message remains.
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The DVD Lead-in area is the area comprising physical sectors 1.2 mm wide or more adjacent to the inside of the Data area. The area contains the Control data and precedes the Data area.
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