I bought the Lite-On LH-2B1S a week ago, and so far I've been able to burn ONE disc, and that was on my 5th try.

Problem is, it keeps crashing after a random percentage of burning, even when erasing my BD-RE disc. Fortunately I've only lost one BD-R disc, since I've tried with the BD-RE disc most of the times.

I have tried 3 different programs;
The Cyberlink BD Solution (Power2go) v5.0,
Nero 7 Ultra Ed.
and
Express Burn v4.02.

Nero finds the drive and everything, but just keeps saying that it can't initialize Disc-at-once when I try to burn a disc, and when I try to erase the BD-RE it starts off ok, but after a few seconds it stops and says "Invalid field in command H: LITE-ON BD B LH-2B1S".

I've updated the firmware from AL06 (which it originally was) to AL09, tried all the above mentioned programs again without any luck, flashed it back to AL06, tried again with some different burn options, and now I've flashed it back to AL09 again.

It reads CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs just fine, and I can copy from all the three types. It's just that it keeps crashing when I try to burn Blu-Ray discs, and it's driving me insane now after spending days on googling for solutions without any luck. So I hope anyone can help me out here..


My computer specs, if it may be of any help:

Asus A8N SLi Premium (BIOS Rev. 1303, newest) w/NForce4 chipset
AMD Opteron 185 (Stock speed, 2.6 GHz) w/Zalman cooler
2Gb RAM
74Gb Raptor (JBOD/Single on RAID controller), boot
3x320Gb WD discs in RAID5
1x120Gb WD on IDE1
LITE-ON LH-2B1S (currently AL09) on SATA1
XFX 8800 Ultra

Any tips will be appreciated!

What are you trying to burn, a movie or data?
What is the brand/MID of BD-R and BD-RE?

I would suggest trying to burn with ImgBurn and let us know how it goes.

The first few times I tried to burn a backup of all my pictures, approx. 21 gb of .jpegs and a few .avis, mostly. Data, in other words. I've tried both ISO9660 and UDP of various types, not that I know the difference anyway. The BD-Rs I use (only one this far, which crashed) are Verbatims, and the BD-RE that came with the burner is a TDK. I also have a couple of Sony BD-R DLs, but I won't even touch those before the drive is stable..

Thanks a lot for the quick reply though, I'll try ImgBurn immediately and post the result when I've tried a few times

Now I've tried ImgBurn for a while, unfortunately with no success ImgBurn does however delete the BD-RE just fine, but when I try to burn something it burns between 480 and 510mb, then crashes(at least the 4-5 times I've tried with the same MDF/ISO file). I made a couple of MDF/ISOs containing pictures and a few AVIs, and I tried to burn a single movie file (as Data) without making an ISO out of it first, but it just keeps crashing.

What bugs me out though, is that the burner actually burns something, and that it seems to be able to erase BD-REs; if it hadn't worked at all I would be sure that the hardware was damaged, but when I've been able to write a whole disc (ONCE) and still can delete (both quick and full deletion) partially written BD-REs with success.. I don't know what to do, really. I've even tried switching SATA channels, but it did of course not make any difference.. I feel like I've tried pretty much everything (that I know of, at least), so maybe I should just return it?

It seems that you've tried on only one BD-RE disc and it looks like the crashes are on the same spot. An educated assumption tells me that it might be a bad media. To ignore the assumption you can try another BD-RE disc. If another disc doesn't result a success then we can try to troubleshoot further.

*doh*, that's a pity. :-(

I have never tried to burn a BD-RE disc...in fact, I've never burned/used +/- RW either.

I do have several BD-RE discs filled with data, but so far I've used them similarly to DVD-RAM (simple drag-n-drop or copy/paste). Not sure if the data is safer using this method vs. actually burning a -RE. Maybe I'll try it out and see. I own the bwu-100, so perhaps results can't be directly compared.

Also have been lucky to have had no BD -R coasters, although I have only burned 25 GB discs. I'm afraid mostly of power outages ruining these longer burn times...thus there's more risk involved for the 50s....plus bad results from 50's are expensive, lol.

Unfortunately I only have one BD-RE disc, and I haven't even seen them in the stores (I live in Norway, bought my stuff in the US) here. I tried to burn a couple of DVD-Rs however, and guess what.. turns out they crashed at approx. the same percentage as the BD-R/BD-RE did

I thought the lasers in a triple writer would concist of two seperate heads, as one burns blue rays and one burns red..?

So to me it seems that the device is broken.. I guess I should just return it? Problem is, tigerdirect (whom I bought it from) doesn't sell the LH-2B1S any more.. but I'll probably figure out something

Anyways, thanks a lot for the help zevia!

Since you also have problems with burning DVDs, can you please try this out:

Insert a blank DVD and run Nero CDSpeed (or Nero DiscSpeed from Nero 8). Go to "Create Disc" tab and press Start so CDSpeed will start the test (burning random data to your dvd media). Please save the image by clicking the small green disc icon on the top right and post/attach the png file here.

I'm hoping with the above test we will be able to see something unusual.

Have you tried burning a dvd-r with other dvd burner?

I just did as you said, but with Nero CD/DVD-speed that came with Nero 7 Ultra. After burning for a minute or two it just hangs. CD/DVD-speed locks up after a couple more minutes, and when I take a screenshot and paste it into the picture prog and try to save it, the picture prog freezes, and so it continues.. it's pretty much the same every time I would guess is that the laser heads are blocked somehow, or something like that.. but I just managed to copy 2gb of data off of a disc containing 4gb before the whole system froze.. and my computer is usually stable as a rock.. :S

Do you have another DVD burner in the PC that you can try the Create Disc test?

I have a NEC DVD-RW ND-3500AG that I've burned hundreds of DVDs on without a single crash.. I tried it in CD/DVD-speed, but I don't know if these are the results you needed, because the CD/DVD-speed seems to be a little bit different from the one you described.. Anyways, the results are on the image below. The Lite-On LH-2B1S keeps crashing at the first spike, right before 0,5 gb. When I come to think about it, the BD-R and BD-RE kept crashing after burning approx. 500 megs too. I don't know if there might be a connection between the spike and the Lite-On crashing at that exact spot though..

Here's another pic, from a complete test of the NEC.

Update: I returned the "broken" LH-2B1S and got a new one in december. For some reason the same errors occurred on the replacement.. That made me figure that the problem was probably in my hardware/software setup, so I kind of gave up, until a couple of days ago when a stumbled across a tip about updating SATA/IDE/Chipset drivers. So I tried that, and to my surprise it seems this had been the problem all along.. now the burner has "only" crashed 2 times out of 10-12, and both crashes with the Cyberlink solution, and none with ImgBurn. Sweet!

Is it a nvidia sata controller?

Yes, it's an nVidia (nForce4) SATA controller.. thing is, before udating the drivers everything *seemed* to work perfectly, the LH-2B1S could read discs and everything, so I didn't even concider the fact that the errors could be caused by outdated nVidia drivers.. But as I said in my previous post, after several months of frustration it seems that I can finally burn blu-ray discs without crashing. Yay!