[ihaveanosebleed]

It could be your media. Do you have any other backups working on the same media that are
as big as Rising run (over 4.3Gig)? I have a 4040B and could not get this game to backup
on princo's. What brand are you using? try Verbatims.

The problem is either:
(A) cheap media does not burn as good in the outer edge, last 500MB or so.
(B) Burner does not burn quite as good on the edge.
(C) PS2 does not read as good on the edge (I guarantee you they don't!)
(D) All of the above. A little bit of everything leads to a big frozen load!