"Edward Diener No Spam" wrote in
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I specifically set the master and slave drive jumpers for my DVD
drives but without any difference.

That's not surprising. Provided you are using an 80 wire cable, jumpering
the drives as Cable Select *is* the de facto "correct" jumpering method for
the majority of motherboards and drives the majority of the time.

I am right, am I not, that I put the blank DVD in the drive with the
label
side up to burn it, just as I do with a normal DVD to read it ?

Without knowing anything about the particular drive model you've bought, one
would very much imagine so, yes.

It is so mysterious to me that while everything looks good and
DeepBurner acts like it is burning an image on the DVD...

I've never heard of either of the utilities you mention. One good diagnostic
step to follow would be using something known to be good. Nero would be as
good a choice as anything.

Is there any software that will test a DVD writer and report back
if something is wrong with it and what it might be ?

Nero and Alcohol 120% both include diagnostic/test utilities. I daresay
there are others.

There are a variety of potential explanations currently on the table, from
duff software to a faulty drive. If you can try some known decent writing
software that'd be a start.

Incidentally, have you tried using this drive to write a CD-ROM or CD-RW?
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Richard Hopkins
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