Bad Backups
 

I just bought a Sports pack Dreamcast for my sons birthday and I am unable to get backups to work. It was manufactured in July 2000. I'm using NERO and the burns are reported as successsfull. My burner won't work with disc juggler. I am thinking of getting a new Lite-on 24x burner. I guess what I'm asking is how can I tell if its my burns or the Dreamcast. The burns are readable in Win Explorer...but only the audio tracks. The bottom of the disc looks like a sectored GDROM.

Thanks!

You say the Audio tracks are good on the discs? You can play the audio in an AUDIO player (or your CDROM drive using the CD Player)?

If you don't see data on the disc when you pop it into your computer cdrom drive, you don't have a good burn. If you see an audio disc, but the audio isn't really good audio, it's definately a bad burn. If you have audio and no data, it sounds like Nero burned only the first session of the disc, which was AUDIO.

You can try extracting the original .CDI files to your hard drive using CDMAGE, and then follow the Echelon self-boot tutorial to burn the discs manually.

The July2000 mfg date should be just fine. I've got a JUNE2000 dated machine and have no problem with backups.

One other thing: If you see bands in the data on the disc (gaps between different sessions), it is most certainly a bad burn, possibly due to defective burner (I had an old Memorex burner that started misburning discs and one noticable effect was banding in the data area of the disc). The problem with my old Memorex was said to be a lubrication problem on the head rails. (Just an FYI, nothing more).

Thanks for the reply. You have been very helpful. I am almost positive it is the burner. I ordered the Lite-On 24x today. Hopefully it will do a better job. My only concern is that cdrinfo says that the drive won't burn any slower than 8x. My current drive (Mitsumi 4801TE) would make coasters at anything over 1x for PSX.