What are you trying to burn? I've not had a failed write since the 90's in the bad old days of Nero and having to disable screensavers etc.
Fucking buffer underrun :(
Some stuff Jim asked me to do for him.
8.7 Gb on 8.5 Gb dual layer discs.
I remember years ago we went to Glasgow to a computer fair. On the way back our train was delayed because one of the trains going into Waverley had failed to stop and crashed into the buffers.
We /genuinely/ found it utterly /hilarious/ that for once our day had been ruined by a buffer overrun. (fail)
I don't think I ever managed or bothered to do what needs to be done now with the overburn.
I was tempted to get an optical disc emulator thing then stick the isos on a USB drive. Not sure if it's a waste of would actually make me use it more regularly.
I was doing fine with over burn, but lately (maybe last 12 months?) all my discs fail. Put them in and it says Play Game but with no name/icon, many starting them causes the screen to go black (like it's stsrting) but then crashes back to the desktop.
So for £50 there's a guy across town that'll install the RGH stuff. That's not much more than the cost of setting up my DVD drive to use with my laptop and getting some more discs (only got 3 left), plus I can run homebrew.
Is it still compatible? I remember you saying it was banned from Live so probably hasn't been updated beyond the maximum dashboard version.
The RGH thing works on any dashboard. My banned one had rrod a few years ago (it's fixed but not being used). My second one never went online (except on the day I got it to get the divx license thing), but was stolen. My third and current one has never been online since being flashed.
Picked the box up tonight, and while Freestyle Dash certainly has some very rough edges, it's remarkably capable and intuitive.
So far I've ripped some games from original DVDs, transferred some via (FAT32 :S ) USB hard drive, and FTP'd some Arcade games over. Not really practical on wifi given the size of these things.
I think the next step is to replace the 60gb internal drive with something a bit more modern and throw all my discs out.
Not looked into home brew or emulators yet, that can wait for the weekend.
So you believe it's worth it?