I have found only one media that the A05 has success with. It is a cheapy Princo -R/W, aqua colored disc. It take about an hour to burn a video DVD using DVD Decryptor but then it can be read by my Panasonic DV-30 and my Apex AD-5131 as well as my pc player. I have tried 3 other types of 2X media and one other type of 1X -R media, none of them worked. The drive appears to be burning the DVD and there are no error messages and the burning software reports "success." But nothing will read the disc. Also I cannot see the tracks on the burned disc. Even when it burns the aqua R/W disc that works. In the past I have always been able to see the tracks it burned. There is a slight glaze to the disc, as opposed to one that has not been burned, but no noticible tracks. I have not tried this with the Sony drive but I am sure it will have visible tracks.
I have used mostly DVD Decryptor but I have also tried Nero and Stomp RecordNow Max. The latest versions of all of them.
Can anyone shed some light on this or should I sent this drive back?
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