I was dubbing a DVD with Shrink to burn to my Sony DVD+/-R/RW drive. When the shrinking finished and it auto-jumped into burning, Shrink spit out my DVD+R with a message that it is the wrong format of media. It gave a message along the lines of "Shrink is looking for Media: DVD-R/RW. Media in Drive: DVD+R". Normally Shrink autodetects the media (or maybe my drive does the autodetect and tells Shrink), but this time it just insisted it had to only have -R. I almost always use +R as my previous burner (long dead) had only supported +R, so I got used to sticking with it. Fortunately, I had a blank -R on hand, but I would prefer to keep as much of my library to a single format, and I've got a lot more blank +Rs than -Rs at home. Anybody know what may have happened and how to correct it?
Your drive does the auto-detecting and informs Shrink.
Well, either the disk was bad (or you got a bad lot), or your drive is having a problem with correctly recognizing the media you're using. Start by making sure the burner's firmware is upto date, you can check here and download an update if needed.
I was using Verbatim. If the burner handles both + and -, why would it only look for one and identifying the other reject it? I actually tried the same DVDR again on my next run of Shrink and it burned without any problem. Maybe a technical hiccup?
