Data Burn Troubles - Thompson dvd reader

[Dobie1]

xbox v1.1 - x2 2.2 pro chip with 4977_repack. The dvd drive is labled as a "Thompson".

Now I can't burn a disk correctly for this xbox to save my live. It hates everything i burn. I have a Pioneer A05 burner and use the Ritek 4x with the g04 dye. I also have tried a few various other media but no luck also.

I use the RecordNow Max data burn method, and even lower the record rate down to 1x but again no luck.

The xbox reads the disks but at random points in the game it stops and give me the 'dirty or bad disk error'.

At this point I got to think it is my xbox's dvd drive that sucks.



Here is my question(s) -Are these Thompson dvd readers known to be crap, what media is best for them and should I look at changing it out?